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envious

adj
/ˈɛnviːəs/

Etymology

From Middle English envious, from Anglo-Norman envious, from Old French envieus, envious (modern French envieux), from Latin invidiōsus; more at envy. Doublet of invidious, borrowed directly from Latin. Displaced native Old English æfestiġ.

  1. derived from invidiōsus
  2. derived from envieus
  3. derived from envious
  4. inherited from envious

Definitions

  1. Feeling or exhibiting envy

    Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

    • an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
    • Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
    • My soul is envious of mine eye.

  2. Excessively careful

    Excessively careful; cautious.

    • for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable

  3. Malignant

    Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

    • Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Inspiring envy.

      • He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.

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Derived

enviously, enviousness, nonenvious, unenvious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at envious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at envious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at envious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA