jealous
507
1.8
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɛləs/
:
celoso
- She felt jealous when her boyfriend spent time with other girls.
- become jealous
- feel jealous
- a jealous husband
Often it's either they're jealous or they're afraid.
- Often it's either they're jealous or they're afraid.
- Like he he doesn't get jealous like he's really like laid back.
- So next time you feel like being jealous, try being supportive.
- I thought you a bit jealous maybe I don't get jealous.
- You mean to tell me that you wasn't jealous in any type of way?
- It is a jealous, not a jealous lover, but a jealous beloved.
Examples
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Finding me in it made her angry and jealous; there are some things that she doesn't understand.
Fiction book (1992) -
One night she and Don encountered Gene and his jealous new girlfriend Laura at a dance.
Academic text (2013) -
And I was jealous, and I went with him.
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Oh, so are you jealous that they actually talk about us?
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Guess I was just a little jealous, you know, with you being new and all.
Fiction book (1993) -
I never wanted you to feel jealous.
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So next time you feel like being jealous, try being supportive.
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According to Huston, "he was caught in the wrong bed by a jealous husband."
Academic text (2002) -
Tiffany, you made me so jealous when you did the weather on KTLA.
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He became jealous after seeing her with someone else at the party.
Synonyms
4
6.0
Feeling jealous because you fear being replaced
How Jealous
24
3.8
507
1.8
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 an old root meaning 'zeal' or a 'strong feeling', and it is the same root behind the English words zeal and zealous. So, in love, to be jealous is to feel a strong, protective fear that someone else might take your partner.