Noah Webster
Apprehensive
APPREHEN'SIVE, adjective
1. Quick to understand; as, an apprehensive scholar.
2. Fearful; in expectation of evil; as, we were apprehensive of fatal consequences.
[This is the usual sense of the word.]
3. Suspicious; inclined to believe; as, I am apprehensive he does not understand me.
4. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [Rarely used.]