jealous

verb

(ambitransitive, 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

Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.

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.

Suspicious; apprehensive.

Roots

zelosjeal- · Greek · zeal, ardor

Synonyms for jealous

enviousadj covetousadj enviousnessn jealousyn resentfuladj possessiveadj distrustfuladj mistrustfuladj invidiousadj invidiousnessn

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