INDEX:
1. because someone loves another person
2. because you want something that someone else has
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1. because someone loves another person
▷ jealous /ˈdʒeləs/ [adjective]
angry and unhappy because you think your husband, girlfriend etc loves someone else more than they love you :
▪ Some parents feel jealous if their child loves the nanny or babysitter.
▪ Corwin has several female friends, and says his wife has never been jealous.
▪ Police believe the shootings may have been the work of a jealous boyfriend.
get jealous
become jealous
▪ My girlfriend gets jealous if I even look at another woman.
make somebody jealous
▪ Trying to make your boyfriend or girlfriend jealous isn’t a good idea.
jealous of
▪ Some fathers are jealous of the attention a new baby receives, even if they won’t admit it.
jealously [adverb]
▪ He watched jealously as Rose danced with his brother.
▷ possessive /pəˈzesɪv/ [adjective]
someone who is possessive wants their husband or wife, children, friends etc to love only them, and does not like them spending time with other people :
▪ She was too possessive, always wanting to know where I was, who I was with.
possessive of/about
▪ She is extremely possessive about her university friends, and doesn’t like them mixing independently with her workmates.
▷ jealousy /ˈdʒeləsi/ [uncountable noun]
the angry, unhappy feeling you have when you think your husband, girlfriend etc loves someone else more than they love you :
▪ The police believe Morgan strangled his girlfriend in a fit of jealousy.
▪ For a moment, she was overcome by jealousy.
jealousy of
▪ How should a single mother deal with her son’s jealousy of her new boyfriend?
2. because you want something that someone else has
▷ jealous /ˈdʒeləs/ [adjective not usually before noun]
you feel jealous when someone has something that you want, and you are annoyed that they have it and you do not :
▪ Maybe he’s jealous because I got the job and he didn’t.
jealous of
▪ I guess some of the other kids are jealous of her talent.
▪ Rasputin was killed by men who were jealous of his influence with the Russian royal family.
▷ envious /ˈenviəs/ [adjective] especially written
you feel envious when someone has something nice or special, and you wish that you had it too :
▪ I see people who have opportunities I don’t have, and I get envious.
▪ She looks good, and enjoys the envious stares of other women.
envious of
▪ Lewis was envious of Forney’s success.
enviously [adverb]
▪ She glanced enviously at Emma’s slim figure.
▷ envy /ˈenvi/ [transitive verb]
to wish that you had the same abilities, possessions etc as someone else :
▪ I envied her. She looked so calm and capable.
envy somebody for something
▪ He always envied his brother for the way he made friends so easily.
envy somebody something
▪ I envied him his freedom to do or say what he wanted.
▷ jealousy /ˈdʒeləsi/ [uncountable noun]
a feeling of wanting something that someone else has, especially when this makes you angry or unhappy :
▪ Professional jealousy can cause huge problems in the office.
jealousy of
▪ On one level, the story of Snow White is about a mother’s jealousy of her daughter’s beauty and sexuality.
▷ envy /ˈenvi/ [uncountable noun]
the feeling you have when you want something that someone else has :
▪ It was difficult to hide her envy as Jim described his new job.
green with envy
very envious
▪ Before you get green with envy, I had to do a lot of stuff that wasn’t so glamorous, too.
be the envy of somebody
be something that someone else would like to have
▪ The country has a low crime rate that is the envy of most other countries.
▷ sour grapes /ˌsaʊəʳ ˈgreɪps/ [plural noun] spoken
say this when you think that someone’s bad or angry behaviour is caused by jealousy :
▪ Brown said his rival’s comments were just sour grapes..