envy

envy is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Malice; ill will; spite. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Malice; ill will; spite.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Emulation; rivalry.
4. noun. Public odium; ill repute.
5. noun. An object of envious notice or feeling.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
9. transitive verb. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
10. transitive verb. To hate.
11. transitive verb. To emulate.
12. intransitive verb. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
13. intransitive verb. To show malice or ill will; to rail.
14. noun. spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)

    Synonyms: invidia

15. noun. a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

    Synonyms: enviousness

16. verb. be envious of; set one's heart on

    Synonyms: begrudge

17. verb. feel envious towards; admire enviously

Synonyms

invidia, enviousness, begrudge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in envy:

veny

Common word forms

envied, envier, envies, envying

Words from these letters

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