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enviously en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English envious Middle English -ly English -ly English enviously From envious + -ly.

Meanings

1. in an envious manner or to an envious degree
   • Patricia Florca, wearing black market Levis and a dark blue, collarless shirt, snapped open a Ronson lighter and put flame to a black market Marlboro. Lidia Cozma looked enviously at the cigarette's glowing tip. "Want one?" Patricia whispered. Lidia nodded and Patricia offered the pack. Lidia removed a Marlboro, and moments later both women were sending exhaled smoke toward a cloudless sky. 2013, Mike Johnson, A Season Forgotten, page 191:
   • “We quarrelled long ago, did we not, and many years have passed since we met, but Time heals all wounds and—welcome, son of my father. I need not ask if you are well,” and he glanced enviously at the great-framed man who knelt before him. 1910, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter II, in Morning Star:

Forms

Translations (15)

sh за́видно (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · sh ljȕbomōrno (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · sh љу̏бомо̄рно (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · it con invidia (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · pl zawistnie (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · pl zazdrośnie (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · ka შურიანად (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · it invidiosamente (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · nrf envieusement (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · sh závidno (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · pt invejosamente (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · ang nīþfullīċe (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · es envidiosamente (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · it livorosamente (in an envious manner or to an envious degree) · fr envieusement (in an envious manner or to an envious degree)