Jealous

Quick meaning: Jealous is an adjective meaning Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Suspicious; apprehensive.
2. (ambitransitive, slang) To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
3. 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.
4. Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
5. (transitive, Australian Aboriginal) To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

Example Sentences

jealous lover

She gave him a jealous look.

be jealous of someone/something

I'm jealous because I'm single.

Word Forms

• jealouser
• jealousest
• jealouses
• jealousing
• jealoused

Synonyms for jealous

Depending on context, synonyms include covetous, desirous, distrustful, envious, green-eyed, overjealous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include envious, distrustful, overjealous, desirous, covetous, green-eyed.

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