inapprehensive
Americanadjective
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not perceiving or feeling fear or anxiety; untroubled
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rare unable to understand; imperceptive
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of inapprehensive
First recorded in 1645–55; in- 3 + apprehensive
Example Sentences
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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 Bernard Gilbert
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
But what a want of self-respect such judgments argue, or rather, want of knowledge what true self-respect is: 'So I believed yesterday, and so now—and yet am neither hasty, nor inapprehensive, nor malevolent'—what then?
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
All the birds of this class are strangely inapprehensive of danger when moulting or hatching.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
She realized the pitfalls that lie in wait for persons as simple and as inapprehensive as Annette, especially when they are beautiful as well, and she sighed.
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
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