Dictionary Entry
apprehension
apprehension is a 12-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
- 2noun
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
- 3noun
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
- 4noun
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- 5noun
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
- 6noun
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
- 7noun
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
"the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
- 8noun
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
"he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
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- 9noun
painful expectation
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- 10noun
fearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
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