John is envious of your new car.
Source: tatoeba (52622)
Envious
//ˈɛnviːəs//
Synonyms for "envious" (73 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
82 translations across 56 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φθονερός adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Arabic
4 entries- حاسد adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- حسود adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- حَسُود adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- غيران adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Armenian
2 entries- նախանձ adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- նախանձոտ adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- paxıl adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Belarusian
2 entries- заві́сны adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- зайздро́сны adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Bulgarian
1 entries- зави́стлив adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Catalan
1 entries- envejós adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Cebuano
1 entries- suyaon adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 嫉妒的 adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Czech
1 entries- závistivý adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Danish
1 entries- misundelig adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Dutch
2 entries- jaloers adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- nijdig adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Estonian
1 entries- kade adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Faroese
1 entries- øvundsjúkur adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Finnish
4 entries- ilkeä adj (malignant; mischievous; spiteful)
- kade adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- kateellinen adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- ylivarovainen adj (excessively careful)
French
1 entries- envieux adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Galician
1 entries- envexoso adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Georgian
1 entries- შურიანი adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
German
4 entries- betulich adj (excessively careful)
- fürsorglich adj (excessively careful)
- neidisch adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- neidvoll adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Greek
3 entries- ζηλιάρης adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- ζηλόφθονος adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- φθονερός adj (malignant; mischievous; spiteful)
Hindi
1 entries- ईर्ष्यालू adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Hungarian
2 entries- irigy adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- irigykedő adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Icelandic
1 entries- öfundsjúkur adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Indonesian
1 entries- iri adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Irish
1 entries- éadmhar adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Italian
1 entries- invidioso adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Japanese
1 entries- 嫉妬深い adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Kazakh
1 entries- қызғаншақ adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Korean
1 entries- 부럽다 adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Ladin
1 entries- nvidiëus adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Latin
1 entries- invidus adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Latvian
1 entries- skaudīgs adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Macedonian
1 entries- завидлив adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Middle English
2 entries- envious adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- envious adj (malignant; mischievous; spiteful)
Māori
1 entries- haetara adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Norman
1 entries- envieux adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Norwegian
1 entries- misunnelig adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Occitan
1 entries- envejós adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Old English
1 entries- æfestiġ adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Old Irish
1 entries- foirmtech adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Persian
1 entries- حسود adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Polish
3 entries- zawistny adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- zawistny adj (malignant; mischievous; spiteful)
- zazdrosny adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Portuguese
1 entries- invejoso adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Romanian
2 entries- invidios adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- pizmaș adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Russian
1 entries- зави́стливый adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Sanskrit
1 entries- ईर्षु adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- farmadach adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- surevnjiv adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- závidan adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- за́видан adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Slovak
1 entries- závistlivý adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Slovene
1 entries- zavisten adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Spanish
2 entries- envidioso adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- receloso adj (excessively careful)
Swedish
4 entries- avundsjuk adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- missunnsam adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- svartsjuk adj (malignant; mischievous; spiteful)
- vaksam adj (excessively careful)
Tocharian B
1 entries- entsesse adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Turkish
1 entries- kıskanç adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Ukrainian
2 entries- за́здрісний adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
- зави́сний adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Zazaki
1 entries- peğil adj (feeling or exhibiting envy)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I was envious of the students who had studied abroad.
Source: tatoeba (256590)
I am envious of his success.
Source: tatoeba (260695)
You can never be happy if you feel envious of other people.
Source: tatoeba (274706)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.