Dictionary Entry
envious
envious is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
- 2adjective
Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
- 3adjective
Inspiring envy.
- 4adjective
Excessively careful; cautious.
- 5adjective
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
"he was never covetous before he met her"
"jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"
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