envied
/ˈɛnvid/
envied is the simple past and past participle of envy.
envied is the simple past and past participle of envie.
Meaning of envy
Verb
envy (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)
- To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
- Moon and Kim took a cable car together to Heaven Lake, a caldera at the top of the mountain, and walked around the area with their wives and officials from both sides.
Pictures showed Moon and Kim smiling and posing with their wives, and Moon filling a bottle with water from the lake.
“The Chinese...2018 September 20, Hyonhee Shin, Joyce Lee, Soyoung Kim, Haejin Choi, Pyongyang Press Corps., “Fulfilling a dream, South Korea's Moon visits sacred North Korean mountain with Kim”, in Lincoln Feast...
- Moon and Kim took a cable car together to Heaven Lake, a caldera at the top of the mountain, and walked around the area with their wives and officials from both sides.
- To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
- To have envious feelings (at).
- I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;[…]let me live quiet and at ease.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
- But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore
A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore
- To show malice or ill will; to rail.
- He has[…]envied against the people.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
- If I make a lie
To gain your love and envy my best mistress,
Put me against a wall.c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the...
- If I make a lie
Meaning of envie
Verb
envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)
Adjective
envied (comparative more envied, superlative most envied)
- That is the object of envy.
- She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the...1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185
Forms of envied
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | envyed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more envied |
| superlative | most envied |
Words formed from envied
Words that rhyme with envied
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
Questions about envied
- What does envied mean?
- Envied means that is the object of envy.
- What is envied the simple past and past participle of?
- Envied is the simple past and past participle of envy.
- What part of speech is envied?
- Envied is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce envied?
- Envied is pronounced /ˈɛnvid/.
Words near envied in the dictionary
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