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Envious vs Rancorous - What's the difference?

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Envious is a related term of rancorous.


As adjectives the difference between envious and rancorous

is that envious is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging while rancorous is full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.

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.

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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    rancorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rancourous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
    • rancorous speech

    Synonyms

    * malicious * resentful * venomous