Apprehensive vs Skeptic - What's the difference?
apprehensive | skeptic |
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
Someone who habitually doubts beliefs and claims presented as accepted by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.
Someone undecided as to what is true.
A type of agnostic
As an adjective apprehensive
is anticipating something with anxiety or fear.As a noun skeptic is
someone who habitually doubts beliefs and claims presented as accepted by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.apprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
- More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.