adj inspiring envy.
2. envious ·adj excessively careful; cautious.
3. envious ·adj malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
4. envious ·adj feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy;
said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, ·etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging;
followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.