jealous
IPA: dʒˈɛɫʌs
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
- (transitive, Australian Aboriginal) To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.
adjective
- Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
- Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
- Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
- Suspecting, suspicious.
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Examples of "jealous" in Sentences
- She is jealous of her pretty friend.
- Some people are jealous of their sisterhood.
- Besides the aristocracy was jealous of the Serbs.
- By the way, I'm jealous of the ham in the photo above.
- I think most people are just plain jealous of the Palins.
- I spent most of April writing what I call a jealous novel.
- The first meaning of the word jealous is "watchful or solicitous."
- Danny is jealous and throws Marcos in the water with a life preserver.
- Fallon notices the rapport between them and becomes petulant and jealous.
- In the novel, she is overweight, jealous, and resentful of Helen's success.
- Charlie is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.
- Betty just thinks her friend is jealous and is impervious to the revelation.
- The oratorio emphasizes the sexual jealous and the sexual fidelity of spouses.
- Mr. Steele, if I didn't know better, I would be suspicious that you are just plain jealous of Pres.
- He and Anna became “lace curtain Irish,” the term the jealous “shanty Irish” of First Ward used for families that moved up and out.
- A judge today sentenced an Altamonte Springs man to life in prison for shooting his wife to death in what he described as a jealous rage.
- Paul, the idea that women get a little sick of male-dominated TOCS (and that POC get a little sick of white-dominated TOCS) because they are jealous is kinda old.