envy

Meaning

1. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
3. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
4. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
5. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
6. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
7. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
8. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
9. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
10. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
11. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

jealousy

be jealous

be envious

invidia

admire

be jealous of

be envious of

heart-burning

be angry with

be angry

ardent wish

cardinal sin

desire for

eager desire

green-eyed monster

hanker after

arrogance

self-centeredness

wish for

bear malice against

have one’s eyes on

be green-eyed

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛnvi/

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”). Displaced native Old English æfest.

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