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  • 21jealous — Synonyms and related words: anxious, begrudging, bitter, covetous, demanding, desirous of, distrustful, doubting, envious, enviousness, envying, grasping, green, green with envy, green with jealousy, green eyed, grudging, horn mad, insecure,… …

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  • 22rivalry — Synonyms and related words: antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, clashing, collision, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, covetousness, cross purposes, cutthroat competition, disaccord, discord …

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  • 23jealousy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of envy Nouns jealousy, envy, covetousness, cupidity, desire, heartburn, jaundice, jaundiced eye; green or yellow eyed monster; distrust, mistrust, umbrage, spite, resentment; suspicion, doubt;… …

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  • 24covetousness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. avarice, Cupidity, avariciousness; see greed . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Resentful or painful desire for another s advantages: enviousness, envy, jealousy. See DESIRE. 2. Excessive desire for more than one needs or… …

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  • 25envious — c.1300, from Anglo Fr. envious, O.Fr. envieus (13c.), earlier envidius (12c., Mod.Fr. envieux), from L. invidiosus full of envy (Cf. Sp. envidioso, It. invidioso, Port. invejoso), from invidia (see ENVY (Cf. envy)). Related: Enviously; …

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  • 26envy — I. v. a. 1. Hate (for excellence or success), view with jealousy, feel ill will toward. 2. Grudge, begrudge. 3. Be discontented at, repine at (another s prosperity). 4. Long for, earnestly desire, desire eagerly and emulously, emulate. II. n. 1 …

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  • 27envious — envious, jealous, though not close synonyms, are comparable because both carry as their basic meaning that of grudging another s possession of something desirable. Envious stresses a coveting of something (as riches, possessions, or attainments)… …

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  • 28envy — n 1. jealousy, resentment, grudge, begrudging, heartburn, green eyed monster, enviousness; discontentment, malcontentedness, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, heartburning; rivalry, cupidity, Obs. emulation. 2. covetousness, desire, wanting, longing… …

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  • 29heartburn — n 1.Pathology. indigestion, dyspepsia, stomach upset, gastric distress, brash, cardialgia, pyrosis, water brash. 2. envy, jealousy, resentment, grudge, begrudging, green eyed monster, enviousness; discontentment, malcontentedness, dissatisfaction …

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  • 30jealousy — n 1. resentment, ill will, spite, grudge, begrudging, heartburning, bitterness; envy, enviousness, green eyed monster, heartburn; rivalry, cupidity. 2. suspicion, distrust, mistrust, doubt, foreboding; insecurity, anxiety, uneasiness,… …

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