apprehensive
adjective
uneasy or fearful about something that might happen.
unapprehensive
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a word derived from
apprehensive.
Example Sentences
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A number of families resided in the fort, unapprehensive of danger.
From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
He never jarred with what was immediately around him, and his nature was too joyous, too unapprehensive, for the hidden and the distant to grasp him in the shape of a dread.
From Romola by George Eliot
He was not unapprehensive of the influence of time and absence in curing the most vehement passion, but to this expedient the lady could not be reconciled.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
It was not long before a group of Chippeways was discovered, all unapprehensive of evil.
From Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
Therefore he was surprised at nothing and feared nothing and so he walked through the strange night as undisturbed and unapprehensive as the farmer to the cow lot in the darkness before the dawn.
From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs
