adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a jealous rage
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He killed his wife in a jealous rage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
just
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The truth was that they were just jealous they had not thought of it before and made all of that money.
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They're just jealous of our success.
so
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It had been foolishness to be so jealous .
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The girl you were so jealous of.
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I was so jealous , checking her out for lies, hating every moment she was out of my sight.
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It's treated like a child and gets so jealous .
very
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He is a very jealous person.
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The spirits are very jealous , Manshin Ahjima explained.
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Horses can be very jealous , and very possessive.
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The girl in Mathilde's story was named Louisa, and she was engaged to a very jealous man named Antonio.
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I don't mean he'd go up fire escapes and all that, but he was very jealous .
■ NOUN
husband
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A jealous husband using an axe on his wife.
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Keitel is badly miscast as the comically jealous husband .
lover
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A jealous lover certainly would be acting on his own.
man
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Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way.
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Ro is not a conventionally jealous man , not like the types I have known.
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The girl in Mathilde's story was named Louisa, and she was engaged to a very jealous man named Antonio.
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But Haakon was a jealous man , with no intention of sharing the throne with his well-received cousin.
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Parr was not a jealous man , he told himself, but he was at least a human one.
rage
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Her jealous rage subsided; she stroked the horse's neck.
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Rumors have swirled for years that Hearst shot Ince in a jealous rage .
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It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair.
wife
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It was Zeus' jealous wife Hera, not the innocuous underworld custodian Hades, who made Hercules' life a nightmare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jealous husband
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Corwin has several female friends, and says his wife has never been jealous .
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I guess some of the other kids are jealous of her talent.
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Maybe he's jealous because I got the job and he didn't.
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My girlfriend gets jealous if I even look at another woman.
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Police believe the shootings may have been the work of a jealous boyfriend.
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Rasputin was killed by men who were jealous of his influence with the Russian royal family.
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Some fathers are jealous of the attention a new baby receives, even if they won't admit it.
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Some parents feel jealous if their child loves the nanny or babysitter.
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Trying to make your boyfriend or girlfriend jealous isn't a good idea.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A jealous husband using an axe on his wife.
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His wife Kasturbal was a beautiful young woman and he felt more jealous of her than ever.
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I never felt jealous either, never believed I would be.
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Maureen showed an unexpected aptitude for driving and learned very quickly but Helen was not jealous .
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She can not say she is jealous of pictures on a page.
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That kind of jealous behaviour isn't conducive to having a healthy, strong relationship.