Envy

Quick meaning: Envy is a noun meaning Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).

Meaning

Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).

More Meanings

1. An object of envious notice or feeling.
2. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
3. (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
4. (transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
5. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
6. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
7. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.

Example Sentences

No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.

This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world[.]

distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.

Word Forms

• envies
• envying
• envied

Synonyms for envy

Depending on context, synonyms include begrudge, enviousness.

Antonyms for envy

Common opposites include kindness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enviousness, begrudge, jealousy, jealous, hatred, grudge.

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