Enviable
['envɪəb(ə)l] or ['ɛnvɪəbl]
Definition
(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Desirable, to be envied.
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Examples
- His acquaintances thought him enviable to have so charming a wife, and nothing happened to shake their opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are an enviable dog, said the Vicar, to have such a prospect--Rosamond, calmness and freedom, all to your share. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I cannot deny that my sensations are sometimes enviable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had a great red pipe in his mouth, and was smoking, and staring at the rush-light, in a state of enviable placidity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The battery, as it was originally put out some years ago, made for itself an enviable reputation; but with its improved form there has come a vast increase of business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Enviable accomplishment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lawrence Lefferts occurred to him as the husband who had most completely realised this enviable ideal. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Perfect health was Shirley's enviable portion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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