envied

English

Alternative forms

• envyed (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnvid/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

envied

1. simple past and past participle of envy

Adjective

envied (comparative more envied, superlative most envied)

1. That is the object of envy.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:

     She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪd/

Verb

envied

1. simple past and past participle of envie

Anagrams

• Devine, devein, endive, veined