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Fuming vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?

fuming | apprehensive |

As adjectives the difference between fuming and apprehensive

is that fuming is that fumes while apprehensive is .

As a verb fuming

is .

As a noun fuming

is the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.

fuming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that fumes
  • very angry
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Kevin Core , title=Fulham 6 - 0 QPR , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The first Premier League hat-trick by a Fulham player was taken in fine style, but it also exposed a slack defensive display which left QPR manager Neil Warnock fuming on the sidelines.}}

    Derived terms

    * fuming sulphuric acid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
  • * 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
    • He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings , and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
  • * 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
    • And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
  • * 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
    • Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.

    apprehensive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively