Meaning

8 senses
  1. (transitive)To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.

    beneiden

    зави́доватьzavídovatʹ

    за́здритиzázdryty

    feel envious towards; admire enviously

  2. (transitive)To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).

  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To have envious feelings (at).

    be envious of; set one's heart on

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.

  5. (obsolete)To show malice or ill will; to rail.

  6. (obsolete)To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

  7. (obsolete)To hate.

  8. (obsolete)To emulate.

Examples

225 sentences
  1. I envy your success.

    Я заздрю твоєму успіху. — iceman

    ruЯ завидую твоему успеху. — las

  2. I envy him.

    Я йому заздрю. — deniko

    ruЯ ему завидую. — marafon

    deIch beneide ihn. — Manfredo

  3. I envy Tom.

    Я заздрю Тому. — deniko

    ruЯ завидую Тому. — ichigo

    deIch beneide Tom. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I envy you.

    Я тобі заздрю. — deniko

    ruЯ вам завидую. — marafon

  5. I don't envy you.

    Я тобі не заздрю. — deniko

    ruЯ не завидую тебе. — DiePain

    deIch beneide dich nicht. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to feel displeasure towards (someone) because of their good fortune, possessions:
Русский
By meaning 1
to feel displeasure towards (someone) because of their good fortune, possessions:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to feel displeasure towards (someone) because of their good fortune, possessions:

Origin

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invide

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).

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Forms

envies, envying, envied, envied
Base formenvy · to envy
3rd person singularenvies
Present participleenvying
Past simpleenvied
Past participleenvied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyenvy
he, she, itenvies

Past simpleLesson

all personsenvied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave envied
he, she, ithas envied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill envy

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • be envious of; set one's heart on:begrudge

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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