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What does envious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word envious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
  2. Excessively careful; cautious.
  3. (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
  4. (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
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People who are envious or jealous seem to be in a perpetual state of suffering and anguish.
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
The Soviet Union had better technology and more money to spend on it than America, and that made the Americans jealous, even envious.
It doesn't seek to keep up with the Joneses, it seeks to destroy what the Joneses have so that they can be as miserable as the envious one.
The unreachableness of Kubla Khan's pleasure-dome gives our poet an envious position.

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