envy
[noun]
Synonyms:
- covetousness, enviousness, jealousy, resentfulness, resentment
[verb]
Synonyms:
- covet, be envious (of), begrudge, be jealous (of), grudge, resent

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Related Idioms: be green with envy
Related Words: covetousness, grudging, resentment, covet, crave, desire, hanker, long, want, yearn

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I. en‧vy¹ /ˈenvi/ verb (past tense and past participle envied, present participle envying, third person singular envies) [transitive]

1. to wish that you had someone else’s possessions, abilities etc:
I really envy you and Ian, you seem so happy together.
She has a lifestyle which most people would envy.
envy somebody something
He envied Rosalind her youth and strength.

2. I don’t envy you/her etc spoken used to say that you are glad that you are not in the bad situation that someone else is in

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. envy² noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: envie, from Latin invidia, from invidere 'to look at with bad feelings', from videre 'to see']

1. the feeling of wanting something that someone else has ⇒ jealousy
with envy
He watched the others with envy.
envy of
his envy of the young man’s success
twinge/pang of envy
I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together.
She could see that all the other girls were green with envy (=feeling a lot of envy).

2. be the envy of somebody to be something that other people admire and want to have very much:
an education system that is the envy of all European countries

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

envy
noun
ADJ. extreme | unconscious | class, social
QUANT. tinge, touch I detected a tinge of envy in her tone.
pang, stab, twinge I felt a twinge of envy for the people who lived there.
VERB + ENVY be consumed with, be green with, feel, have I had no envy of his success.
express, show | arouse, excite, fill sb with, inspire Her youth and looks aroused extreme envy in her rivals.
PREP. with ~ I look with envy on those lucky people with big families.
~ at I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.
~ for the envy she felt for her sister
PHRASES be the envy of sb/sth British television is the envy of the world (= is admired by everyone).
an object of envy Her car was an object of envy in the neighbourhood.

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envy
verb
ADV. greatly, really | secretly
PREP. for I secretly envied her for her good looks.

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envy
ˈenvɪ
See: green with envy

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