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Envying vs Envious - What's the difference?

envying | envious |

As a verb envying

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun envying

is a feeling of envy.

As an adjective envious is

feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

envying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feeling of envy.
  • * (William Law)
    • Their moderation may perhaps keep them from the bitter envyings and hatred, to which ambitious worldlings are subject

    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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