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jealous

adj
/ˈd͡ʒɛ.ləs/

Etymology

First attested in 1382. From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Doublet of zealous.

  1. derived from ζῆλος
  2. derived from zelosus
  3. derived from jalous
  4. inherited from jelous

Definitions

  1. Suspecting rivalry in love

    Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.

    • jealous lover
    • She gave him a jealous look.
    • She stopped, and laid her hand upon his golden head, and then bent down and kissed his brow with a chastened abandonment of tenderness that would have been beautiful to behold had not the sight cut me to the heart - for I was jealous!

  2. Protective

    Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.

    • Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:

  3. Envious

    Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.

    • be jealous of someone/something
    • He was jealous of his friend’s success.
    • I'm jealous because I'm single.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Suspicious

      Suspicious; apprehensive.

      • I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.

    2. To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.

      • If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
      • Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
      • But another part of me is jealousing because Xifeng is looking at Ify like she is special, almost like she is wanting to call her daughter, and I am wanting Xifeng all to myself.

    3. To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's)…

      To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

      • […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.

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Derived

hyperjealous, jealous as a Barbary pigeon, jealous husbands problem, jealous-like, jealously, jealousness, jealousy, nonjealous, overjealous, superjealous, unjealous

Vish — recursive loop

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

6 hops · closes at jealous

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