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

Derived Forms

• inapprehensively
  adverb
• inapprehensiveness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of inapprehensive

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

Example Sentences

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 Cholmondeley, Mary

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)

But yet the ladies and gentlemen in the vehicle were inapprehensive of danger, and their mirth and jocularity betrayed the inward pleasure they derived from his increasing straggles.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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

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 Browning, Robert