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1. Fearful expectation or anticipation
   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
   - apprehensiveness, dread
    
2. The cognitive condition of someone who understands
   "he has virtually no apprehension of social cause and effect"
   - understanding, discernment, savvy
    
3. Painful expectation
   - misgiving
    
4. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
   "the policeman on the beat got credit for the apprehension"
   - arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody

Derived forms: apprehensions

See also: apprehend

Type of: capture, expectation, fear, fearfulness, fright, gaining control, knowing, outlook, prospect, seizure

Encyclopedia: Apprehension