Ill-disposed vs Envious - What's the difference?
ill-disposed | envious | Related terms |
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,
* 2011 , Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games , Cambridge University Press (2011), ISBN 9780521196161,
* 2011 , Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15 , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456781859,
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
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)page 61:
- And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
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- 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.
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- 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)- 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.