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adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"

adj. mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"

apprehensive, discerning, perceptive

adj. quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

timid

adj. showing fear and lack of confidence

faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted

adj. lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"

pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly

adj. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

uneasy

adj. relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent

adj. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

abashed, chagrined, embarrassed

adj. feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"

cagey, cagy, chary

adj. characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"

restless, uneasy

adj. lacking or not affording physical or mental rest; "a restless night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep"

anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet

adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

unstrung

adj. emotionally upset; "the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort"

frightened, scared

adj. made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"

alert, alive(p), awake(p)

adj. mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

astute, sharp, shrewd

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

perspicacious, sagacious, sapient

adj. acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"

crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

razor-sharp

adj. as sharp as a razor

wise

adj. having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"

acrophobic

adj. suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places

afeard(p), afeared(p)

adj. a pronunciation of afraid

aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked

adj. struck with fear, dread, or consternation

agoraphobic

adj. suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places

alarmed

adj. experiencing a sudden sense of danger

algophobic

adj. suffering from algophobia; abnormally afraid of pain

hangdog

adj. frightened into submission or compliance

claustrophobic

adj. suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places

fearful

adj. experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

frightened, scared

adj. made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"

horrified, horror-stricken, horror-struck

adj. stricken with horror

hydrophobic, aquaphobic

adj. abnormally afraid of water

mysophobic

adj. suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination

panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightened

adj. thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted"

terror-stricken, terror-struck

adj. struck or filled with terror

triskaidekaphobic

adj. suffering from triskaidekaphobia (abnormal fear of the number 13)

unnerved

adj. deprived of courage and strength; "the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer"

white-lipped

adj. having white lips from fear or terror

xenophobic

adj. suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign

overanxious

adj. anxious or nervous to an excessive degree

agile, nimble

adj. mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

quick-witted

adj. mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"

quick, ready

adj. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"

brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip

adj. having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

bright, smart

adj. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

prehensile

adj. having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

searching, trenchant

adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)

adj. endowed with the capacity to reason

scintillating

adj. brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"

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