Definitions for envy

envy en·vy

Spelling: [en-vee]
IPA: /ˈɛn vi/

Envy is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in envy (envy).

Definitions for envy

noun

  1. a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
  2. an object of such feeling:
  3. Obsolete. ill will.

verb (used with object)

  1. to regard (a person or thing) with envy:

verb (used without object)

  1. Obsolete. to be affected with envy.

Origin of envy

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English envie Old French Latin invidia, equivalent to invid(us) envious (derivative of invidēre to envy; see invidious) + -ia Examples for envy

He wears the look of one who is gnawed with envy, and he heaves the sigh of despair.

At times we are as much the object of their envy as they ever are of ours.

Deep in his heart was a gnawing of envy—not for himself, but for his work.

Many in the neighboring North Caucasus republics say they envy Chechnya its strong leader.

I don’t think that happened in the ‘90s and the ‘80s and I wonder if there’s a purity to that that I envy sometimes.

I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer.

I had found the one and only thing in the entire universe for which Ben Bradlee might envy me: my age.

She was gowned, too, with a chic nicety to arouse the envy of all less-fortunate women.

I envy my refusenik friends their steadfast commitments to stay in, and contentment in doing so.

There was a pride in the statement with regard to which my first feeling was a pang of envy.

Word Value for envy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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