jealous

Meaning

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 one has or appreciates.
  • Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
  • Suspecting, suspicious.

Origin

  • From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος ("zeal, jealousy"). zealous.

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