Resentful vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?
resentful | apprehensive |
Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when .
Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
As adjectives the difference between resentful and apprehensive
is that resentful is inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged while apprehensive is anticipating something with anxiety or fear.resentful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (Inclined to resent) unforgiving, spiteful * (Full of resentment) bitterDerived terms
* resentfully * resentfulnessReferences
* * *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.