Word Meanings - APPREHENSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
Related words: (words related to APPREHENSIVELY)
- APPREHENSIVENESS
The quality or state of being apprehensive. - APPREHENSION
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - DANGERLESS
Free from danger. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - APPREHENSIVELY
In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger. - DANGER
difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to - DANGEROUS
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - APPREHENSIVE
1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne. 2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. A man that has spent his - DANGERFUL
Full of danger; dangerous. -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. Udall. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - PREAPPREHENSION
An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne. - INAPPREHENSION
Want of apprehension. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ENDANGERMENT
Hazard; peril. Milton. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - MISAPPREHENSIVELY
By, or with, misapprehension. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - MISAPPREHENSION
A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.