jealous
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɛləs/
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envidioso
- She felt jealous of her friend's success at work and wished she could achieve the same recognition.
- feel jealous
- become jealous
- jealous neighbors
All your haters who are jealous, they just want what you've got.
- All your haters who are jealous, they just want what you've got.
- The things that make us jealous are the things that ping our insecurity.
- I can't say that I'm too jealous of the dad's downhill.
- And you both had things I was so jealous of because Rodney's was.
- I love you guys and I'm very jealous because these are so cool.
- I would go, like, how jealous can I make this thing?
- Maybe the people who started off jealous in the first five.
Examples
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I'm jealous of you because of Godhardt.
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I was jealous of her.
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Oh, how do I stop myself getting jealous so easily?
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Sometimes I would get very jealous, even when there was no reason.
Academic text (2010) -
Ray's a little jealous, just a little bit.
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Our wives get jealous of our friendship.
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I'm so jealous you guys had good trips.
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Because there are couples who seem happy in paradise, and I am jealous of them.
Fiction book (1991) -
To tell the truth, she's always been jealous, though she tries to hide it.
Fiction book (1990) -
All the kids were jealous of Sean's perm.
Synonyms
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2.4
Feeling unhappy because you want what someone else has
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4.5
Feeling very jealous because someone has something you want
How Envious
Surface Forms
Morphology
jealous = jeal + ous
Although the surface segmentation is 'jeal-' + '-ous', the element 'jeal' is not a productive standalone English base, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived by an average learner from its parts.
Etymology
Jealous comes from the same root as zeal, which means 'strong feeling'. So, to be jealous of someone's things or success is to feel upset or envious because you want what they have.