Synonyms & related words for apprehensively

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Words related to apprehensively

Explore words related to apprehensively — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include anxiously, uneasily, nervously, worriedly, jumpily, fearfully, fretfully, hesitantly. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does apprehensively come from?

The word apprehensively breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root prehens-, from Latin prehendere (“seize, grasp”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.