Apprehensive vs Worrying - What's the difference?
apprehensive | worrying |
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
Inducing worry.
* {{quote-news
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The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
As adjectives the difference between apprehensive and worrying
is that apprehensive is while worrying is inducing worry.As a verb worrying is
.As a noun worrying is
the act of worrying or harassing somebody.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.
Derived terms
* apprehensivelyworrying
English
(wikipedia worrying)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.