JEALOUSY


Meaning of JEALOUSY in English

[noun]Jealousy is a feeling of unhappiness and anger because someone has something that you want.He broke his brother's new bike in a fit of jealousy. [U]She was consumed by/eaten up with (= full of) jealousy when she heard that he had been given a promotion. [U]Nationalist jealousies began to reappear once the neighboring states became independent. [C]The team has performed very badly this season due to petty jealousies (= feelings of jealousy about unimportant things) among the players. [C]Compare envy.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.