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The answer ENVIOUS has 62 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of envious in various dictionaries:
adj - showing extreme cupidity
Feeling, expressing, or characterized by envy: “At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.... He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage” (Stephen Crane).
Eager to emulate; emulous.
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| feeling or showing envy. |
| showing extreme cupidity painfully desirous of another's advantages |
| Feeling or showing envy. |
| Feeling, expressing, or characterized by envy: "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.... He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage ( Stephen Crane). See Synonyms at jealous. |
| Archaic Eager to emulate emulous. |
| wishing you had what another person has: |
| wanting something another person has: |
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| Envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it".Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his or her envy, Russell explained, but that person also wishes to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more just social system. However, psychologists have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envymalicious envy being proposed as a sick force that ruins a person and his/her mind and causes the envious person to blindly want the "hero" to suffer; on the other hand, benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force that causes the person to as |