40 Synonyms & Antonyms For JEALOUS

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Definitions jealous [jel-uhs] / ˈdʒɛl əs / ADJECTIVE desirous; wary Synonyms STRONGEST anxious apprehensive attentive envious intolerant possessive protective resentful skeptical suspicious WEAK begrudging covetous demanding doubting emulous envying grabby grasping green-eyed grudging guarded invidious jaundiced mistrustful monopolizing possessory questioning rival solicitous vigilant watchful zealous Antonyms STRONGEST calm content undoubting unworried WEAK satisfied trusting unresentful

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They were very happy until Raven, the jealous trickster, came and gave them a burdensome task.

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Seeing Hannie so happy I couldn’t stop the tiny, churlish, jealous voice inside me that asked why she never laughed like that with me any more.

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We were the sort of sisters you are a bit jealous of because we were so close.

From BBC

So what kind of things make you jealous?

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I thought back to all the extra tutoring she’d received over the years, a fact that I’d always been more than a little jealous of.

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covetous distrustful dissatisfied green-eyed invidious jaundiced malicious mistrustful protective suspicious untrusting viperous

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