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Apprehensive vs Tremulous - What's the difference?

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Apprehensive is a related term of tremulous.


As adjectives the difference between apprehensive and tremulous

is that apprehensive is while tremulous is trembling, quivering, or shaking.

apprehensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • 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.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively

    tremulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
  • * 1850 , , The Scarlet Letter , ch. 3:
    • The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous .
  • * 1919 , , A Man Four-Square , ch. 27:
    • "Thank God!" he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.
  • *'>citation
  • Timid, hesitant, or unconfident.
  • * 1891 , , The Great Taboo , ch. 15:
    • "You have lived here long?" Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat.
  • * 2009 Oct. 7, , " Opinion: Gourmet to All That," New York Times (retrieved 18 Aug 2012):
    • This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.

    Synonyms

    * quaking, shaking, trembling, tremulant * timid, wavering

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