GDict

envious

'enviәs8 senses · 6 ms
Level C1CET-6
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adj/ˈɛnviːəs/
  1. 1

    Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

    • an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
  2. 2

    Excessively careful; cautious.

    • for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable
  3. 3

    Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.obsolete

    • Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
  4. 4

    Inspiring envy.obsoletepoetic

    • He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.

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