different between suspicious vs envious

English

Etymology

From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??sp?.??s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

suspicious (comparative more suspicious, superlative most suspicious)

1. Arousing suspicion.

   His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.

   • 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman

     If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

3. Distrustful or tending to suspect.

   I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.

4. Expressing suspicion

   She gave me a suspicious look.

Synonyms

• questionable
• doubtful

Derived terms

• non-suspicious, nonsuspicious
• suspiciously
• suspiciousness

Related terms

• suspect
• suspicion
• unsuspecting

Translations

See also

• odd
• strange

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)

1. Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
   • My soul is envious of mine eye.

2. 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

3. (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
4. (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)

1. envious; jealous

Descendants

• French: envieux
• Norman: envieux
• ? English: envious