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Jealous vs Questionable - What's the difference?

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Jealous is a related term of questionable.


As adjectives the difference between jealous and questionable

is that jealous is suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's fidelity while questionable is (obsolete) inviting questions; inviting inquiry.

jealous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's fidelity.
  • Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates.
    • For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. —Exodus 34:14 (NET)
  • Envious; feeling resentful of someone for a perceived advantage, material or otherwise.
  • * 1891 , Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
  • * 1899 , Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
    • The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.
  • Suspecting, suspicious.
  • * 1823 , Walter Scott, Quentin Durward
    • At length [...] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, [...] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; [...] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.

    Usage notes

    Some usage guides seek to distinguish "jealous" from “envious”, using jealous' to mean “protective of one’s ''own'' position or possessions” – one “jealously ''guards'' what one has” – and ''envious'' to mean “desirous of ''others’'' position or possessions” – one “''envies'' what others have”. “ Envious/Jealous]”, Paul Brians, ''[http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/book.html Common Errors in English Usage]'' This distinction is also maintained in the psychological and philosophical literature.See [http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy], [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/ Envy], [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/
  • 1.2 1.2 Envy vs. Jealousy However, this distinction is not reflected in usage, as reflected in the quotations of famous authors (above) using the word ' jealous in the sense “envious (of the possessions of others)”.

    • Derived terms

    * jealously adverb * jealousy noun * jealousness noun

    Related terms

    * zeal * zealot * zealous

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    questionable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
  • * Shakespeare, Hamlet :
    • Thou comest in such a questionable shape.
  • Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.
    • It is questionable if the universe is open or closed.
  • Of dubious respectability or morality.
    • Tiffiny's behavior is highly questionable .