Reverse Dictionary: APPREHENSION

ADJECTIVES
1200 — RAD apprehensive, frightened, afraid; alarmed → obs. exc. Sc.
1440 — FEARED apprehensive, having an uneasy foreboding → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1548 — DOUBTFUL apprehensive → obs.
1608 — AWFUL apprehensive or frightened of doing something → obs.
1684 — ARGH apprehensive, timorous, afraid → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1788 — ARFISH apprehensive, timid, fearful → Eng. dial.
1796 — EERIE apprehensive, frightened, in dread of spirits → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1833 — ALL-OVERISH apprehensive; physically or mentally uneasy → Amer. dial.
1877 — OORIE apprehensive, uneasy, affected by a feeling of the supernatural; superstitiously afraid; in dread of spirits, eerie → Sc.
1884 — GUN-SHY apprehensive; reluctant; fearful → Amer. sl.
1928 — HEART-IN-MOUTH causing great apprehension or alarm; anxious
1942 — FLINCHY nervous, apprehensive → Amer. dial.
1951 — BOTHERED UP apprehensive; agitated; confused; mixed up → Amer. dial.
1970 — WORMY extremely apprehensive and nervous; inclined to worry; old-womanish → US railroad sl. (Bk.)
1989 — JEEBY apprehensive or anxious → Amer. sl.

ADVERBS
1586 — FEARFULLY in a state of apprehension or uneasiness; anxiously; cautiously, with hesitation → obs.

NOUNS
1225 — DOUBT apprehension, dread, fear → obs.
1398 — TAKING mental apprehension or perception → obs.
1548 — OPINION apprehension; expectation; the thought of what is likely to happen → obs.
1576 — DOUBTFULNESS apprehension → obs.
1668 — PAIN anxious apprehension or desire; distress caused by fear of possible evil, anxiety → obs.
1748 — SUGGESTION apprehension, a foreboding → obs.
1828 — THE EAGERS excessive apprehension or eagerness; feelings of desire, impatience, or anxiety → Amer. dial.
1884 — ALL-OVERS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness → Amer. dial.
1896 — JIMJAMS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1896 — THE WILLIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness 
1912 — THE JUMPS feelings of nervousness or apprehension; fidgets; exaggerated startle responses → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE HEEBIE-JEEBERS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE EEBIE-JEEBIES — THE HEEBIE-JEEBIES — THE HEEBY JEEBYS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923— THE HIBBIE-JEEBIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE HIBBIE-JIBBIES — THE HIBBY JIBBYS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE HIBBIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE HIBBIES-JIBBIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1923 — THE HIGH BIJEEBEES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1928 — JIMMIES feelings of uneasiness, apprehension, or nervousness → Amer. dial.
1930 — SKEEVERS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or excessive nervousness → Amer. dial.
1931 — WHIM-WHAMS — WIM-WAMS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or nervousness; a depressed or gloomy mood → Amer. dial.
1938 — BUTTERFLIES apprehension, nerves, tension → Amer. sl.
1938 — BUTTERFLIES IN ONE’S STOMACH apprehension, nerves, tension → Amer. sl.
1938 — JEEBIES a feeling of apprehension or anxiety → Amer. sl.
1965 — THE WILLY-NILLIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, depression, or nervousness 
1965 — THE WOOLLIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, depression, or nervousness → Amer. dial.
1966 — JIGGERS feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, anxiety, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort → Amer. dial.
1967 — THE JIBBIES feelings of apprehension, anxiety, depression → Amer. dial.
1994 — SKEEVIES feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, or excessive nervousness → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1956 — WORRYWART a constantly apprehensive person; a person who worries excessively → Amer. sl.

VERBS
1340 — UG to feel apprehension, dread, disgust, or loathing → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1420 — WARE to be apprehensive or careful for → obs.
1877 — MISDOUBT to apprehend, to fear; to think; to having an inkling or suspicion of → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1913 — FEEL AS THOUGH DEATHSTRUCK to feel apprehensive, anxious, or greatly distressed → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1935 — SPOOK to make apprehensive; to frighten → US sl.
1970 — SWEAT BULLETS to be very worried, to be apprehensive → US sl.