Envious vs Enviable - What's the difference?
envious | enviable |
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
Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
As adjectives the difference between envious and enviable
is that envious is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging while enviable is arousing or likely to arouse envy.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.
See also
* (l)Anagrams
* ----enviable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time. —
- This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. —