Envious vs Bitterness - What's the difference?
envious | bitterness |
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
the quality of having a bitter taste
the quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment
As an adjective envious
is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.As a noun bitterness is
the quality of having a bitter taste.envious
English
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.