Wishful vs Envious - What's the difference?
wishful | envious |
(obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
Expressing a wish or longing for something.
Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
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
In obsolete terms the difference between wishful and envious
is that wishful is wished-for; desired, wanted while envious is malignant; mischievous; spiteful.wishful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The cry whereof entring the hollow cave / Eftsoones brought forth the villaine, as they ment, / With hope of her some wishfull boot to have.
Derived terms
* wishful thinkingenvious
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.