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JEALOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
Example:
envious of their art collection
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
desirous; wishful (having or expressing desire for something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
Example:
a jealous lover
Synonyms:
green-eyed; jealous; overjealous
Classified under:
Similar:
distrustful (having or showing distrust)
Context examples:
They are jealous even of his regard for his father.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It is the influence of the fashionable world altogether that I am jealous of.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Amazed that Isabella could endure it, and jealous for her brother, she rose up, and saying she should join Mrs. Allen, proposed their walking.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Brandon will be jealous, if she does not take care.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She could love, and hate, maybe have hysterics; and she could certainly be jealous, as she was jealous now, uttering her last sobs in his arms.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A subtype of delusional disorder applied when no one delusional theme (such as grandiose, jealous, persecutory) predominates.
(Mixed Type Delusional Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
The one thing of which he had always been particularly jealous was his head.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Oh, you need not be jealous!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You are as jealous of Miss Murdstone as it is possible for a ridiculous creature to be.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
