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

单词	envious
释义	en·vi·ous \ˈenvēəs, -viəs\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old French envieus, envious, from Latin invidiosus, from invidia envy + -osis -ous — more at envy 1. : characterized by, exhibiting, or reflecting envy : feeling or motivated by envy : maliciously covetous or resentful of the possessions or good fortune of another < tried to look disappointed and angry but … only succeeded in looking envious — Hervey Allen > < the sterile and envious principle of artificial equality — Time > < examining the tire with envious appreciation — M.M.Musselman > 2. archaic a. : emulous b. : enviable < theirs was an envious gift, but lightly held — Thomas Cole > Synonyms: jealous: envious is likely to suggest a grudging of another's possessions and accomplishments, a spiteful desiring of their loss, or, most frequently, a malicious or cankerous coveting of them < his successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them — W.M.Thackeray > jealous may suggest distrustful, suspicious, angry, or malcontent intolerance of the notion of anyone else's coming to possess what is viewed as belonging to or befitting oneself < France, jealous as it was of his greatness and covetous of his Gascon possessions, he could hold at bay — J.R.Green > < I know that religion, science, and art are all jealous of each other because each of them claims, in a sense, to cover the whole field, that is, to interpret all experience from its own point of view — W.R.Inge > It may be used without derogation to indicate cherishing and vigilantly guarding or maintaining < proud of their calling, conscious of their duty, and jealous of their honor — John Galsworthy >
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