transcription, транскрипция: [ envi ]
( envies, envying, envied)
1.
Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has.
Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother...
They gazed in a mixture of envy and admiration at the beauty of the statue.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you envy someone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have.
I don’t envy the young ones who’ve become TV superstars and know no other world...
He envied Caroline her peace...
VERB : V n , V n n
3.
If a thing or quality is the envy of someone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it.
...an economic expansion that was the envy of many other states.
N-SING : the N of n
4.
green with envy: see green