different between grasping vs envious
grasping
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???æsp??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????sp??/
- Hyphenation: grasp?ing
Adjective
grasping (comparative more grasping, superlative most grasping)
- Greedy, eager for wealth.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:greedy
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
grasping
- Present participle and gerund of grasp.
Noun
grasping (plural graspings)
- The act of one who grasps or covets.
Anagrams
- pargings, sparging, spriggan
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envious
English
Etymology
From Middle English envious, from Anglo-Norman envious, from Old French envieus, envious (modern French envieux), from Latin invidi?sus; more at envy. Doublet of invidious, borrowed directly from Latin. Displaced native Old English æfesti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nv??s/
Adjective
envious (comparative more envious, superlative most envious)
- Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
- My soul is envious of mine eye.
- Excessively careful; cautious.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
- (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
Synonyms
- (excessively cautious): overcautious
Translations
See also
- jealous
Anagrams
- niveous, veinous
Old French
Alternative forms
- enviös, envieus
Etymology
From Latin invidi?sus.
Adjective
envious m (oblique and nominative feminine singular enviouse)
- envious; jealous
Descendants
- French: envieux
- Norman: envieux
- ? English: envious
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