Word Definition

Envy

  1. Public odium; ill repute.
  2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
  3. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
  4. To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
  5. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
  6. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
  7. To hate.
  8. To show malice or ill will; to rail.
  9. To emulate.
  10. Malice; ill will; spite.
  11. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
  12. Emulation; rivalry.
  13. To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.