to envy
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1.8
- verb
- /ˈɛnvi/
:
envidiar a
- I often envy my friend's luxurious vacations and wish I could travel as much as she does.
The the, the living would envy the dead in that scenario.
- The the, the living would envy the dead in that scenario.
- He used to say, I enjoy, I, I envy JFK.
- And boy, boy, do I envy the crap out of that.
- And he said after nuclear war, the survivors would envy the dead.
- The vulnerable narcissistic folks envy other people.
- When Antisthenes finishes his speech, then Callias says, I envy your your wealth.
- I said, you know, I don't envy your job because the banks own this town.
- And other people may look at them as being free and perhaps even envy their position.
- I and I envied I I coveted my neighbour's wife.
- Some real eyebrows that we should all envy.
- I I envy that so much because I want to be that.
Examples
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I... envy you.
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They envy our magic and our sensitivity.
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I envy your mother sometimes.
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When it comes to other things, I envy him more than he'll ever know.
Fiction book (1995) -
Do you know how many women envy me for all this?
Fiction book (1995) -
I do so envy you your champagne.
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Ordinary conversations, nothing more, but I find that I envy them and the ease of their communication.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many Asian countries envy Japan's economic and past military success.
Academic text (1998) -
I envy John Brooke for marrying Meg.
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In a way, one might almost envy them the fact they have no illusions to be disabused of.
Synonyms
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6.7
To want something very much, especially something someone else has
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7.6
To feel unhappy when someone else has something, or to give something unwillingly
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8.6
To want something or someone very much and show it in an obvious way
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
9.9
A woman's or girl's feeling jealous of a man's penis that affects how she feels as she grows up
- Jargon
A feeling of wanting the exact methods and high status of physics in other fields
How Envious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Envy comes from the same Latin root invidia, from videre 'to see'. To envy someone is like 'looking at' what they have and feeling a jealous want, which explains why the verb means to want what someone else has.