envy

Meanings

Noun

• Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
• An object of envious notice or feeling.
• Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
• Emulation; rivalry.
• Public odium; ill repute.

Verb

• To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
• To have envious feelings (at).
• To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
• To show malice or ill will; to rail.
• To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
• To hate.
• To emulate.

Origin

• From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia ("envy"), from invidere, from in- + videre.
• Displaced native Old English æfest.