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/ˈd͡ʒɛ.ləs/ · adjective
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!
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:
Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.
be jealous of someone/something
He was jealous of his friend’s success.
I'm jealous because I'm single.
Use jealous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jealous means 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..
Common synonyms include covetous, desirous, distrustful, envious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
jealous lover
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