inapprehensive

American  

[in-ap-ri-hen-siv] / ˌɪn æp rɪˈhɛn sɪv /

adjective

1. not apprehensive (often followed byof ).

2. without apprehension.

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inapprehensive British  

/ ˌɪnæprɪˈhɛnsɪv /

adjective

1. not perceiving or feeling fear or anxiety; untroubled

2. rare unable to understand; imperceptive

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Other Word Forms

• inapprehensively adverb
• inapprehensiveness noun

Etymology

Origin of inapprehensive

First recorded in 1645–55; in- ³ + apprehensive

Example Sentences

For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact.

From Rebel Verses by Gilbert, Bernard

We call it fate, sometimes; stopping short, either blindly inapprehensive of the larger and surer blessedness, or too shyly reverent of what we believe to say it easily out.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

There had been a moment when, inapprehensive as he was, Doll had remembered, with a qualm, that Lord Newhaven could not swim.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

Her father having hinted at indigestion as the cause of her unhappiness, and finding that the hint is badly received, shrugs his inapprehensive shoulders, and ceases to notice her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

All the birds of this class are strangely inapprehensive of danger when moulting or hatching.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis