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Ill-disposed vs Envious - What's the difference?

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Ill-disposed is a related term of envious.


As adjectives the difference between ill-disposed and envious

is that ill-disposed is not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic while envious is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

ill-disposed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.
  • * 2009 , Patrick Malcolmson & Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada , University of Toronto Press (2009), ISBN 9781442600478, page 61:
  • And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
  • * 2011 , Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games , Cambridge University Press (2011), ISBN 9780521196161, page 252:
  • The crowd may generally have been ill-disposed toward arena performers, but that could change depending on what was going on at any given time.
  • * 2011 , Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15 , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456781859, page 241:
  • As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.

    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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