ENVY Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

envy 1 of 2

noun

ˈen-vē

as in jealousy

a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too their envy of their neighbor's fancy home threatened to wreck their friendship

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envy

2 of 2

to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages her coworkers envied her chummy relationship with the senior vice president they envied him because he didn't have to work for a living

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Noun

She’s pulled a white utility cart between us; it’s filled with enough crafting materials to make an elementary-school teacher drool with envy. —

Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024 Cold Lunch Ideas for Kids With these cold lunch ideas, your child will be the envy of the cafeteria. —

Katie Drakeford, Ma, Rd, Csp, Ld, Parents, 23 Sep. 2024

Verb

MacCallum and her boss Mark Thompson, the chairman and chief executive of CNN, are both veterans of The New York Times, which is widely envied in the news business for its success in converting online readers and gamers into paying subscribers. —

Brian Stelter, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024 Jonathan Cohen, News Editor R.E.M., Reckoning Who could envy these Georgia upstarts having to quickly follow up the prior year’s Murmur, one of the best debut rock albums of all time? —

Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for envy

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