Haunted vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?
haunted | apprehensive | Related terms |
Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
(haunt)
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
Haunted is a related term of apprehensive.
As adjectives the difference between haunted and apprehensive
is that haunted is of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts while apprehensive is .As a verb haunted
is (haunt).haunted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
- a haunted expression
Verb
(head)- According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.
Anagrams
*apprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.