Craving vs Envious - What's the difference?
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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 noun craving
is a strong desire; yearning.As a verb craving
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective envious is
feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.craving
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cravinge, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From crave.Verb
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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.