Difference between Apprehensive and Afraid

APPREHENSIVE vs AFRAID: ADJECTIVE

Quick to understand
Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried
Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy.
Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
In fear or dread of possible evil or harm

Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Filled with fear; frightened.
Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Regretful, sorry
Filled with fear or apprehension

In the habit of seizing; ready to catch or seize; desirous to lay hold of: used literally and figuratively.
Quick to learn or understand; quick of apprehension.
Realizing; conscious; cognizant.
In a state of apprehension or fear; feeling alarm; fearful.
Inclined to believe or suspect; suspicious: as, I am apprehensive that he does not understand me.
Perceptive; feeling; sensitive.
In metaphysics, relating to simple apprehension.

Filled with regret or concern
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.

Wary, Nervous, Hesitant, Leery, Troubled, Timid, Scared, Fearful, Concerned, Worried, Perceptive, Discerning, Afraid, Anxious, Uneasy

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Wary, Nervous, Hesitant, Leery, Troubled, Timid, Scared, Fearful, Concerned, Worried, Perceptive, Discerning, Afraid, Anxious, Uneasy

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.