enviable
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈɛnviəbl/
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envidiable
- Living in a spacious house in the countryside is an enviable dream for many city dwellers.
- an enviable position
- an enviable record
They can portray a world and a life that is enviable and extraordinary.
- They can portray a world and a life that is enviable and extraordinary.
- Our guest today had an enviable life and an enviable childhood.
- It could sort of set the tone and it's, it's an enviable task, right?
- I adore Christopher Hitchens, his humour, his charm and his frankly enviable prose.
- And the presidency was in fact, not seen as all that enviable a political office.
- And so it's my pleasure now to turn over to my colleague and classics, Rush Rim, the enviable task of introducing our speaker.
- You also are in the enviable position of having the ability to do a huge range of experiments.
- So, you know Diamond is in a rather enviable position in some respects, but also a difficult position in other respects.
- So we had a very tight, tight, bonding, enviable family.
Examples
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If no action is taken, it is unlikely that future generations will enjoy an enviable quality of life.
Academic text (1991) -
Such an attitude would be easier to understand in Canada or Norway, which have achieved enviable levels of human development.
Academic text (2011) -
We are in the rare and enviable position of having no bad documents.
Fiction book (1995) -
Our guest today had an enviable life and an enviable childhood.
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Some health services organizations find themselves in the enviable position of having a very positive financial picture.
Academic text (1997) -
Oh, I was just thinking that with you as his mother, he begins life with an enviable advantage.
Fiction book (1990) -
You also are in the enviable position of having the ability to do a huge range of experiments.
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But the Cardinals, in 2013, are in the enviable position of not being dependent on him.
Blog text (34) -
Gino, you have a very enviable reputation in the department and in the city.
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Now, at the age of twenty-seven, Hannah found herself in the enviable position of never needing to work again.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
121
3.2
Worth having because many people want it
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4.4
Wanted by many people because it is rare or special
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6.1
Wanted by many people because it looks attractive or is valuable
Antonyms
How Desirable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enviable comes from the common word envy and the ending -able, where envy means 'wanting what someone else has' and -able means 'can be'. So, something enviable is 'able to be envied' and makes other people wish they had it.