Jealous - English meaning

adjective

Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

Usage examples:

We live in a competitive and acquisitive society

adjective

Used to describe a person or company that buys other companies

Usage examples:

It has been one of the most acquisitive firms in recent times, buying over a dozen businesses in th…

verb

Envy (someone) the possession or enjoyment of (something).

Usage examples:

She begrudged martin his affluence

adjective

Given reluctantly or resentfully.

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Begrudging admiration from a rival

adjective

Given or done unwillingly

Usage examples:

The concert attracted begrudging praise from the band's usually hostile critics.

adjective

Having a sharp, pungent taste or smell; not sweet.

Usage examples:

Raw berries have an intensely bitter flavour

noun

Beer that is strongly flavoured with hops and has a bitter taste, brewed by top fermentation.

Usage examples:

A pint of bitter

adjective

Having a slightly stinging, strong taste, not salty or sweet

Usage examples:

The coffee was bitter., losing the election was a bitter disappointment., she has no bitterness abo…

adjective

Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else.

Usage examples:

She fingered the linen with covetous hands

adjective

Wanting to have something too much, especially something that belongs to someone else

Usage examples:

I can't help casting covetous looks at my neighbour's new porsche.

adjective

Having or characterized by desire.

Usage examples:

The pope was desirous of peace in europe

adjective

Wanting something

Usage examples:

The duke is desirous of meeting you.

adjective

Seeking to emulate someone or something.

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If he has, or gathers, a band of the emulous, we may look for some capital sport.

adjective

Feeling or showing envy.

Usage examples:

I'm envious of their happiness

Painfully desirous of another's advantages

adjective

Wanting something another person has

Usage examples:

I’m envious of people that have those big boats.

adjective

Having an excessive desire or appetite for food.

Usage examples:

He's scoffed the lot, the greedy pig

adjective

Wanting a lot more food, money, etc. than you need

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Greedy, selfish people, he's greedy for power/success., they tested the algorithm against the so-ca…

adjective

Of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds.

Usage examples:

Her flashing green eyes

noun

Green colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Major roads are marked in green

verb

Make or become green in colour.

Usage examples:

The roof was greening with lichen

adjective

Given or allowed only reluctantly or resentfully.

Usage examples:

A grudging apology

verb

Be resentfully unwilling to give or allow (something).

Usage examples:

He grudged the work and time that the meeting involved

adjective

Affected by jaundice, in particular unnaturally yellow in complexion.

Usage examples:

The 16-year-old was walking in an alleyway between museum gardens and exhibition square when the ma…

adjective

Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm.

Usage examples:

He was found guilty of malicious damage

adjective

Having the nature of threatening evil

adjective

Intending to cause harm, esp. by hurting someone’s feelings or reputation

Usage examples:

He says she threatened him and spied on him, among other malicious activities.

adjective

Feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated unfairly.

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He was angry and resentful of their intrusion

Full of or marked by indignant ill will

adjective

(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

Usage examples:

I joined them for selfish reasons

adjective

Caring only about what you want or need without any thought for the needs or wishes of other people

Usage examples:

Am i being selfish to want more?

adjective

Showing or caused by malice.

Usage examples:

The teachers made spiteful little jokes about me

adjective

Wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, especially in a small way, because you feel angry towards them

Usage examples:

A spiteful child, that was a spiteful thing to say!