enviably
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- adverb
- /ˈɛnviəblɪ/
- Their lives are almost enviably simple.
- enviably high
Examples
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The PT's enviably progressive record of governance at the subnational level has not translated easily to the federal level.
Academic text (2005) -
He had asked about other French words now and then because, owing to several years of early schooling in France, she was enviably nimble in the language.
Fiction book (1992) -
Our married life seemed to be enviably happy.
Blog text (30) -
It is also enviably responsive to the wide range of new developments.
Academic text (2003) -
Born and raised in America, he had an enviably cosmopolitan education that culminated at Harvard, from which he went into the army.
Academic text (2009) -
The psychic wears a beautiful intaglio ring and has delicate, long fingers with enviably manicured nails.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ebony's text and images portrayed the Strodes as attractive, blissfully happy, and enviably ordinary.
Academic text (2003) -
It's a company that, perhaps enviably, now distributes the best-known names in seating design—from bentwood to Bauhaus to today's masters.
Blog text (26) -
He lives an enviably relaxed lifestyle that many people dream of achieving.
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She has enviably good looks that turn heads wherever she goes.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word enviably comes from the simple word envy, which means 'the feeling of wanting what someone else has', plus the parts -able ('able to') and -ly ('in a way'). So something done enviably is done 'in a way that makes other people wish they had it'.