Usually means: Desire for others' possessions, success.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. envy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. envy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. envy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. envy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. envy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Envy, envy: Wordnik
  7. envy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. envy: Wiktionary
  9. envy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. envy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. envy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Envy, envy: Dictionary.com
  13. envy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. envy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Envy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. envy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. envy: Rhymezone
  19. envy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. envy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. envy: Free Dictionary
  22. envy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. envy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. envy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. envy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. envy: Legal dictionary

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  1. Envy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. envy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ENVY: Acronym Finder
  3. envy: Idioms
  4. envy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Envy: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. E.N.V.Y: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See envied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
noun:  An object of envious notice or feeling.
noun:  (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
noun:  1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
noun:  (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
noun:  (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
noun:  A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
verb:  (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
verb:  (transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
verb:  (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
verb:  (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
verb:  (obsolete) To hate.
verb:  (obsolete) To emulate.

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