Word Meanings - JEALOUSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2.

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The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2. Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority. Shenstone. Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy, had excellence to deserve our fondness. Rambler.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JEALOUSY)

• Envy
• Grudging
• jealousy
• suspicion
• Oil in ill
• Hatred
• offensiveness
• dislike
• invidiousness
• unpopularity
• grudge
• Umbrage
• Offence
• dissatisfaction
• resentment
• displeasure

Related words: (words related to JEALOUSY)

• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• GRUDGINGLY
  In a grudging manner.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• HATRED
  Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
• SUSPICION
  suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension
• OFFENCE
  See OFFENSE
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• GRUDGE
  grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the
• HATRACK
  A hatstand; hattree.
• JEALOUSY
  The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• DISPLEASURE
  1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor;
• GRUDGER
  One who grudges.
• DISLIKEN
  To make unlike; to disguise. Shak.
• DISLIKER
  One who dislikes or disrelishes.
• DISSATISFACTION
  The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness
• UMBRAGEOUS
  1. Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton. 2. Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or
• GRUDGEFUL
  Full of grudge; envious. "Grudgeful discontent." Spenser.
• DISLIKEFUL
  Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. Spenser.
• UMBRAGE
  umbraticus belonging to shade, fr. umbra a shade. Cf. Umber, 1. Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.
• KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
  The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
• BEGRUDGE
  To grudge; to envy the possession of.
• UNSUSPICION
  The quality or state of being unsuspecting. Dickens.