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Envious vs Desiring - What's the difference?

envious | desiring |

As an adjective envious

is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

As a verb desiring is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun desiring is

a yearning for; a want.

envious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
    • an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.
    • Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
  • * Keble
    • My soul is envious of mine eye.
  • Excessively careful; cautious.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • No men are so envious of their health.
  • (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
  • (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
  • * Spenser
    • He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.

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    desiring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A yearning for; a want

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