Antonyms for apprehension
ˌæp rɪˈhɛn ʃənap·pre·hen·sion

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1. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

2. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

3. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

4. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

5. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

6. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

7. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

8. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   alarm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apprehension

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

Matched Categories

1. • Expectation
   • Fearfulness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadnoun

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

   Synonyms:
   pinch, savvy, collar, misgiving, dread, arrest, taking into custody, understanding, catch, apprehensiveness, discernment

2. understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvynoun

   the cognitive condition of someone who understands

   "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

   Synonyms:
   sympathy, judgement, intellect, collar, perceptiveness, dread, discernment, appreciation, misgiving, taste, catch, sagaciousness, judgment, pinch, discretion, savvy, reason, understanding, agreement, taking into custody, arrest, sagacity, apprehensiveness

3. apprehension, misgivingnoun

   painful expectation

   Synonyms:
   savvy, mistrust, suspicion, scruple, dread, misgiving, catch, arrest, pinch, distrust, qualm, understanding, taking into custody, discernment, collar, apprehensiveness

4. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custodynoun

   the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

   "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, hint, touch, understanding, mite, jot, stoppage, catch, halt, shoe collar, dog collar, snap, match, snatch, tinge, soupcon, exigency, speck, neckband, collar, taking into custody, leash, stop, discernment, misgiving, emergency, arrest, tweak, pinch, stay, apprehensiveness, dread, savvy, gimmick, grab, haul, choker, check

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1. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, arrest, opinion, conception, belief, notion, understanding, fear, dread, anxiety, solicitude, alarm

How to use apprehension in a sentence?

1. Jesus Vasavilbaso:

   It takes a special skill a lot of practice from Border Patrol agents to be able to master that, it takes hours. Sometimes, we track groups for hours. Hopefully we can make this apprehension.

2. A. M. Rosenthal:

   If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

3. Patrick Lynch:

   The apprehension was made under fluid circumstances where the subject might have fled and the officer did a professional job of bringing the individual to the ground to prevent that occurrence, it is truly unfortunate that the arrest was a result of mistaken identity by the complainant in the case and we regret any embarrassment or injury suffered by Mr. Blake as a result.

4. White House:

   Under the president’s budget, key federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service will have the resources they need to fight violent crime, including through fugitive apprehension and enforcement operations, the budget also ensures U.S. attorneys have the necessary support to prosecute violent criminals.

5. Jake Prus:

   There was a little apprehension when I first heard about it, because you think a bone-marrow donation is going to be kind of intense and take you out for a while physically and just drain you, i ’m not too worried about it, because, from what I’ve been told, the post effects are n’t painful.

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