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Definition of envious in English: enviousadjective ˈɛnvɪəsˈɛnviəs Feeling or showing envy. 忌妒的；羡慕的 I'm envious of their happiness 我羡慕他们的幸福。 妒忌的一瞥。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm envious of someone who is able to make a living as a reader-writer.
- He can't help but be envious of those in the private sector - there is the great temptation.
- He still had the women swooning, the men in the audience casting envious glances and the youngsters in awe.
- He also had a way with words that made this writer envious more than once.
- I am deeply envious, more so since I learned that the show closed today.
- The envious and ungrateful do not really want to know the truth, since it would disturb their hatreds.
- Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances.
- She is jealous and she is envious and she can not stand the thought of losing you.
- Everyone looks at you and gives you those admiring and envious glances.
- You are beginning to discover that some people can be jealous and spiteful and envious.
- His effortless command of audiences would make even the greatest public speaker envious.
- It also creates a jealous and envious society, as we try to outdo each other.
- The freedom of an individual to create wealth and spend it without envious attacks is a value that we all should be united in protecting.
- The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down.
- Know that the person of whom you are jealous or envious has done some good deeds in the past and is now reaping the fruit.
- After all you have to be envious of somebody to feel jealous of them, right?
- People who are envious or jealous seem to be in a perpetual state of suffering and anguish.
- Housing renovation has all been done by housing agencies, leaving council tenants to cast envious glances.
- My best friend when I was growing up had three sisters and I was very envious at the easy, relaxed manner he had around girls.
- It also has a bad side because I am not liked by many people who are jealous and envious of me.
Synonyms jealous, covetous, desirous grudging, begrudging, resentful jaundiced, bitter, malicious, spiteful green with envy, green, green-eyed formal emulous
Derivativesadverbˈɛnvɪəsli On the fifth day of consuming it by the bucketful, my skin has turned a subtle dusky shade, close on the color scale to that enviously smooth olive complexion of many Italians. Example sentencesExamples - Our European neighbours look enviously at how we can sell our homes without paying tax, or how we can contribute to our medical costs and our pensions and get the maximum income tax rebate available.
- At our first place we watched enviously as a group along from us seemed to pull fish after fish out of the waters while we sprinkled bait into the water and waited without hope for the fish to come to us.
- As the days progressed, students looked enviously at the empty staff parking lots while they fumed in line, or cruised the designated student lots hoping for parking spots.
- I watch enviously as someone prepares a cocktail from the most unpromising ingredients.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French envieus, from envie 'envy', on the pattern of Latin invidiosus 'invidious'. Definition of envious in US English: enviousadjectiveˈenvēəsˈɛnviəs Feeling or showing envy. 忌妒的；羡慕的 I'm envious of their happiness 我羡慕他们的幸福。 妒忌的一瞥。 Example sentencesExamples - I am deeply envious, more so since I learned that the show closed today.
- People who are envious or jealous seem to be in a perpetual state of suffering and anguish.
- Housing renovation has all been done by housing agencies, leaving council tenants to cast envious glances.
- He still had the women swooning, the men in the audience casting envious glances and the youngsters in awe.
- Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances.
- I'm envious of someone who is able to make a living as a reader-writer.
- He also had a way with words that made this writer envious more than once.
- It also creates a jealous and envious society, as we try to outdo each other.
- After all you have to be envious of somebody to feel jealous of them, right?
- She is jealous and she is envious and she can not stand the thought of losing you.
- The freedom of an individual to create wealth and spend it without envious attacks is a value that we all should be united in protecting.
- The envious and ungrateful do not really want to know the truth, since it would disturb their hatreds.
- It also has a bad side because I am not liked by many people who are jealous and envious of me.
- You are beginning to discover that some people can be jealous and spiteful and envious.
- His effortless command of audiences would make even the greatest public speaker envious.
- The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down.
- My best friend when I was growing up had three sisters and I was very envious at the easy, relaxed manner he had around girls.
- Everyone looks at you and gives you those admiring and envious glances.
- He can't help but be envious of those in the private sector - there is the great temptation.
- Know that the person of whom you are jealous or envious has done some good deeds in the past and is now reaping the fruit.
Synonyms jealous, covetous, desirous
OriginMiddle English: from Old French envieus, from envie ‘envy’, on the pattern of Latin invidiosus ‘invidious’. |