apprehensive

About 1.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant.
2. adjective Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
3. noun A mood indicating an undesired outcome.

Similar words

anxious afraid uneasy discerning perceptive worried troubled scared fearful timid

Often followed by

of about that and lest as for at when

Word family

apprehensively apprehensiveness apprehensivenesses