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

1. adjective. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. Inspiring envy.
4. adjective. Excessively careful; cautious.
5. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: covetous, jealous

Synonyms

covetous, jealous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in envious:

niveous, veinous

Common word forms

enviously, enviousness

Words from these letters

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