Admired vs Envious - What's the difference?
admired | envious |
(admire)
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
*, II.2.4:
* Fuller
To regard with wonder and delight.
to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
to estimate or prize highly.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.
* Keble
Excessively careful; cautious.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
* Spenser
As a verb admired
is past tense of admire.As an adjective envious is
feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.admired
English
Verb
(head)admire
English
Verb
(admir)- The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
- examples rather to be admired than imitated
- to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape
Derived terms
(terms derived from admire) * admirable * admirer * admiration * admirativeAnagrams
* ----envious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues
- Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
- My soul is envious of mine eye.
- No men are so envious of their health.
- Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
- He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.
