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Definition: Unapprehensive |
UnapprehensiveAdjective1. Not recognizing or slow to recognize danger. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unapprehensive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1805. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "unapprehensive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që kupton keq, jo i shkathët (ungraceful, ungracious). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неопасяващ се, без усет. (various references) | |
Czech | nebojácný (Dauntless, fearless, intrepid, undaunted). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nehéz felfogású (blockish, blunt-witted, dense headed, dullish, dull-witted, fat-witted, pokey, poky, slow witted, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, to be slow on the uptake, weak-headed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apprehensiveunay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que não percebe (unaware), pouco esperto (mindless), de espírito obtuso (slow-witted). (various references) | |
Russian | непонятливый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepronicljiv (abstruse, undiscerning), neinteligentan (unintelligent, unintelligible), koji teško shvata. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không sợ không thông minh, không e sợ, đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, witless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-p-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: apprehensive. | |
-5 letters: enshrinee, henneries, parvenues, supervene, unhappier, upheavers. | |
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