apprehensive

quick to understand

• “a kind and apprehensive friend” Nathaniel Hawthorne

mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried

• “anxious parents”
• “anxious about her job”
• “not used to a city and anxious about small things”
• “felt apprehensive about the consequences”

in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• “apprehensive for one”
• “;”