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Yearning vs Envious - What's the difference?

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Yearning is a related term of envious.


As a noun yearning

is a wistful or melancholy longing.

As a verb yearning

is .

As an adjective envious is

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

yearning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wistful or melancholy longing.
    • She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
  • (archaic) rennet

    • Related terms

    * yearn

    Verb

    (head)
    • English abstract nouns

    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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