envious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 ĕnʹvēəs

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.
    — an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
  2. 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; mischievous; spiteful. obsolete
    — Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
  4. Inspiring envy. obsolete,poetic
    — He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.

词形变化

more envious comparative most envious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
enviously enviousness nonenvious unenvious
相关词
jealous

词源

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.
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