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

• inapprehensiveness
  noun
• inapprehensively
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of inapprehensive

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

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Example Sentences

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inapprehensive

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

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

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

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

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 Mary Cholmondeley

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 Henry Scadding

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