英语词汇“envious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

envious

/ˈɛnvɪəs

adjective

Feeling or showing envy: I’m envious of their happiness an envious glance...

You are beginning to discover that some people can be jealous and spiteful and envious.
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.

Synonyms

jealous, covetous, desirous;

grudging, begrudging, resentful;

jaundiced, bitter, malicious, spiteful;

green with envy, green, green-eyed

formal emulous

Derivatives

enviously

/ˈɛnvɪəsli

/ adverb ...

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.
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.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French envieus, from envie 'envy', on the pattern of Latin invidiosus 'invidious'.

单词	envious
释义	envious /ˈɛnvɪəs / adjective Feeling or showing envy: I’m envious of* their happiness* an envious glance... You are beginning to discover that some people can be jealous and spiteful and envious. 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. Synonyms jealous, covetous, desirous; grudging, begrudging, resentful; jaundiced, bitter, malicious, spiteful; green with envy, green, green-eyed formal emulous Derivatives enviously /ˈɛnvɪəsli / adverb ... 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. 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. Origin Middle English: from Old French envieus, from envie 'envy', on the pattern of Latin invidiosus 'invidious'.
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