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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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By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
How envious I am of those who can read music and make musical instruments come alive.
He realized that not all the tales of the man's drinking and womanizing achievements were the product of jealous or envious rumour-mongers.
It is a joy to be able to delight in somebody else's good fortune rather than be envious of it.
The Soviet Union had better technology and more money to spend on it than America, and that made the Americans jealous, even envious.

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