envious
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French envieus; more at envy.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Adjective [edit]
envious (comparative more envious, superlative most envious)
- Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
- an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
- Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.
- Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
- Keble
- My soul is envious of mine eye.
- Excessively careful; cautious.
- Jeremy Taylor
- No men are so envious of their health.
- Jeremy Taylor
- (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
- Shakespeare
- Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
- Spenser
- He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.
- Spenser
Translations [edit]
feeling or exhibiting envy
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Anagrams [edit]
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin enviosus
Adjective [edit]
envious m (feminine enviouse)
- envious; jealous
- circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
- Mez mult part fu cruel e mult fu envious
- But [he] was very cruel and very jealous
- Mez mult part fu cruel e mult fu envious
- circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
Descendants [edit]
- English: envious