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Envious vs Egotistical - What's the difference?

envious | egotistical |

As adjectives the difference between envious and egotistical

is that envious is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging while egotistical is tending to talk excessively about oneself.

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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    egotistical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
  • Believing oneself to be better and more important than others.
  • Egoistical.

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