envious
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2.4
- adjective
- /ˈɛnviəs/
:
envidioso
- She felt envious when her friend received a promotion at work.
- envious of others
- envious of colleagues
- become envious
But I've always been envious of the crowd.
- But I've always been envious of the crowd.
- They're jealous, they're envious, they'll want to destroy us.
- I'm certainly envious of his of his brain.
- People are most envious of people who they can relate to.
- And I thought I was so envious of that, and that was a huge clue.
- And right there, that moment, I became envious of those kids from the Salvation Army.
- Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon.
- You'll see that diffident, aloof, cold, rejecting, sometimes even envious narcissistic parents.
- I was always envious if people had more erudition than me.
- The shafts of the envious few.
Examples
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As an artist, I am envious of the free and shifting song of its lines.
Academic text (1996) -
Yet its success would draw envious eyes in the ensuing years.
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I was happy for them, but envious as well.
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Are your students envious of a certain program or work area offered there?
Academic text (2013) -
There are going to be some very envious people at the firm.
Fiction book (1997) -
People are most envious of people who they can relate to.
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I am immediately envious of the easy warmth he seems to feel for John.
Academic text (2005) -
This is what happens when you have a wife everybody's envious of.
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The government in St. Petersburg is envious of our success in Finland.
Fiction book (1992) -
I became envious of Pete "The Gooch" Goochman.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling unhappy because someone has something or success you want
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4.5
Feeling very jealous because someone has something you want
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8.4
Wanting very much to have something that belongs to someone else
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9.9
Having a strong wish to equal or do better than others to compete
Antonyms
How Envious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Envious comes from the Latin word invidere, made of in- ('against') and videre ('to see'), and the same root is behind English words like vision. It originally meant 'to look at someone with bad feelings' because you wanted what they had, so envious now means feeling a wish for another's things often mixed with dislike.