jealously
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4.1
- adverb
- /ˈdʒɛləsli/
:
celosamente
- She jealously watched her friend receive praise for a project she worked hard on too.
- jealously guards
- jealously defended
- jealously warns
Think about how jealously they guard its airspace, right?
- Think about how jealously they guard its airspace, right?
- And, and so we need to guard that very jealously, the rights of parents.
- It remains this jealously guarded recipe.
- And it's now really only political rights, the right to vote that are jealously guarded by citizens.
- Instead, this mass of information on the art of war was jealously guarded and hoarded by the elites who ran a country.
- Nuclear war games are arguably the most jealously guarded secrets in the national security apparatus.
- God himself was utterly familiar from his earlier manifestation as Yahweh, jealously insisting on no other gods.
Examples
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There was no job on Earth better than his, and he guarded it jealously.
Fiction book (1991) -
Bank statements are always jealously guarded.
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And, and so we need to guard that very jealously, the rights of parents.
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I live two blocks from here, give or take, and that is a luxury that I am jealously holding on to.
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A strong family protects itself jealously, boys.
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The statute was supposed to force financial institutions to jealously guard their customers' personal data from other businesses.
Academic text (2002) -
The information would have been an incredibly jealously guarded secret.
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This nation jealously guards its highest award for valor, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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The art of writing, a most powerful invention, was the jealously guarded secret of the priest-caste.
Blog text (33) -
Besides, she adds, the states are jealously protective of their prerogative to legislate.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.3
In a way that shows you want what someone else has
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6.3
Acting as if someone or something belongs to you
Wanting strongly to have something that belongs to someone else
How Jealous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jealously comes from jealous, which comes from an old word like zeal, meaning 'strong feeling' about someone or something. So, to act jealously is to watch or guard what you have closely because you feel envy or worry.