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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Come, friend Flammock," said the Welshman, "frame not thyself more unapprehensive than nature hath formed thee.
From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
At this moment I cast my eyes upon him, and he answers me with the most artless and unapprehensive smile in the world.
From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin
I told him, I was entirely easy and unapprehensive; and, after all his goodness to me, should be so, if he saw the Countess every day.
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
On the tenth of October, as the party were advancing along a narrow defile, unapprehensive of danger, they were suddenly terrified by fearful yells.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint
The inhabitants, entirely unapprehensive of an attack by land, had directed their whole attention to its protection against an invasion by sea.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
