Envy
['envɪ] or ['ɛnvi]
Definition
(noun.) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another.
(verb.) be envious of; set one's heart on.
(verb.) feel envious towards; admire enviously.
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Definition
(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.
(n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
(n.) Emulation; rivalry.
(n.) Public odium; ill repute.
(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
(v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
(v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
(v. t.) To hate.
(v. t.) To emulate.
(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Hate (for excellence or success), view with jealousy, feel ill-will towards.[2]. Grudge, begrudge.
n. [1]. Hate (on account of excellence or success), hatred, jealousy, spite, enviousness, ill-will.[2]. Grudging.[3]. Object of envy, person to be envied.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grudging, jealousy, suspicion
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Definition
v.t. to look upon with a grudging eye: to hate on account of prosperity:—pr.p. en′vying; pa.p. en′vied.—n. grief at the sight of another's success: a wicked desire to supplant one: a desire for the advantages enjoyed by another: (B.) ill-will.—adj. En′viable that is to be envied.—n. En′viableness the state or quality of being enviable.—adv. En′viably.—n. En′vier one who envies.—adj. En′vious feeling envy: directed by envy: (Spens.) enviable.—adv. En′viously.—ns. En′viousness; En′vying (B.) jealousy ill-will.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you entertain envy for others, denotes that you will make warm friends by your unselfish deference to the wishes of others. If you dream of being envied by others, it denotes that you will suffer some inconvenience from friends overanxious to please you.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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Examples
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I never listened to a distinguished preacher in my life without a sort of envy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- How dear Emily is flirting with the strange gentleman,' whispered the spinster aunt, with true spinster-aunt-like envy, to her brother, Mr. Wardle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I was never vain of music; and, at that early age, so much envy never entered my head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You have much to learn, thern, replied Xodar, with an ugly smile, nor do I envy you the manner in which you will learn it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For her I could not lament, so much I envied her enjoyment of the sad immunities of the grave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She always envied, almost with resentment, the strange positive fullness that subsisted in the atmosphere around Ursula and Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How deeply, how suddenly she envied Ursula! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I envied no girl her lover, no bride her bridegroom, no wife her husband; I was content with this my voluntary, self-offering friend. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Alexander's feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Many rich people, whom we poor devils are in the habit of envying, lead contentedly an existence like that above described. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I escaped to the shore, and I was a hiding among the graves there, envying them as was in 'em and all over, when I first see my boy! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Instead of envying Mr. Rushworth, you should assist him with your opinion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was a good long slide, and there was something in the motion which Mr. Pickwick, who was very cold with standing still, could not help envying. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To be familiar and endearing with them all--and so make me mad with envying them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He _had _had the pleasure of seeing the Serjeant, and of envying him too, with all a poor man's envy, for eight years and a quarter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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