(a.) Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
(a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
(a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
(a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
(a.) Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(2) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(3) Family unit apprehensions are indeed at a historical high and UAC apprehensions are surging back to levels seen in 2014 .
(4) He was slightly apprehensive, and more than a little starstruck when he subsequently met the real Tippi Hedren.
(5) The surgical technique uses a local anesthetic containing a vasoconstrictor or an ultralight intravenous general anesthetic in addition to the local anesthetic for the apprehensive or acutely infected patient.
(6) Change in anesthesiologists may have been a factor in increasing apprehension and anesthetic dosage in later treatments.
(7) Apprehension mounted but Liverpool's title pursuit could not be derailed.
(8) The most frequent reason for closing the unit was the apprehension the patient would leave the hospital.
(9) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
(10) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
(11) To improve early diagnosis of gastric carcinoma (GC), it is recommended that every endoscopic investigation be performed with oncological apprehension, paying attention even to the minimum focal changes in the gastric mucosa and making spot biopsy of those changes.
(12) We felt by the end of the process we were prepared, if a bit apprehensive.
(13) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
(14) They have drastically reduced the number of interior deportations – those involving apprehensions that occur away from the border and usually involve individuals who have lived in the US for years – by activating a “ Priority Enforcement Program ”.
(15) At a media day held to mark the completion of the training and arranged before the tragedy, soldier after soldier came forward to insist that, though they were apprehensive, they were determined to do a good job, partly to make sure that their six colleagues had not died in vain.
(16) Because of an apprehension of an unnecessary death occurring during their treatment, healers frequently refer cases, from traditional to modern medicine and from general practitioner to hospital.
(17) The speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case.
(18) He decided to resign, but was strangely apprehensive, fearing that he would never get another job.
(19) If McCroskey's distinction between trait and situation-based state is appropriate, personality variables ordinarily associated with trait apprehension about communication should not correlate as highly with forms defined as more situation specific, such as anxiety about public speaking.
(20) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.
Nonchalant
Definition:
(a.) Indifferent; careless; cool.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(3) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(4) In interviews during the Star Wars years, Fisher affected nonchalance about that break-up.
(5) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
(6) Early in the second half, Rivera, with a splendid burst of individualism, flicked the ball over his head to beat one man, accelerated past two more, and sent a superb shot which the little goalkeeper almost nonchalantly fisted over the top.
(7) The concert has been long prepared, Josh and his friend Ahmed from the perilous estates nearby laying tracks to "Jessie Wright" and another song for Agnes – "a tribute to a girl got shot in Hoxton", Josh says, with apparent nonchalance, but a stab of sorrowful anger in his eye.
(8) And the streets of Athens looked like Glastonbury – minus the mud; plus the teargas … Standing in London's Greek heartland, I feel a curious detachment, a curious out-of-body nonchalance that people also describe when they're remembering a car crash.
(9) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
(10) She was characterised by her very specific sense of failure, which was rueful but nonchalant at the same time: Pearson's iconic image had Kate Reddy smashing up shop-bought mince pies to make them look as though she'd made them herself.
(11) As Glastonbury virgins, they treated the world's biggest festival with the same nonchalant naivety with which they'd conducted their entire career, and with the added issues of an enormous crowd and 2007's ultra-sensitive perimeter sound limiters, it made for a distant and underwhelming experience.
(12) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
(13) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
(14) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
(15) Given how perfect Ford’s nonchalant swagger works for the character, it seems criminal that there was ever any other option.
(16) I climbed too fast for vertigo to strike, scissored my legs over the railings, dropped on to concrete, rolled, picked myself up, then endeavoured to walk across the neatly trimmed lawn with a nonchalant air.
(17) This bullish assurance is bookended by Okoye's studied nonchalance.
(18) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
(19) Of course it’s nice to be up 1-0 and not 0-1, but we didn’t play that well and we’re going to have to do it much, much better on Sunday … they are more athletic than us and stronger than us.” Recovered from an ankle injury, Spurs guard Tony Parker contributed 19 points and reacted to questions about the heat with nonchalance.
(20) Yet no matter how many people are bellowing at him, Lansley perpetually wears the nonchalant expression of a man killing time by humming cheerfully in a lift.