~ (of sb/sth) wanting to be in the same situation as sb else; wanting sth that sb else has:
Everyone is so envious of her. * They were envious of his success. * He saw the envious look in the other boy's eyes.
enviously adverb:
They look enviously at the success of their European counterparts.
seealsoENVY
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for envious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is envious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, envious is tagged as adjective.
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