jealously

Thân thiện

He looked at his friend's new car jealously.

Definition

Adverb: 1. In a manner showing envy or resentment toward someone believed to enjoy an advantage: The feeling of wanting what someone else has. 2. In a manner showing vigilance in guarding or protecting something: The feeling of being protective of one's own advantages, relationships, or possessions against rivals.

Usage and Examples

• Showing Envy:
  • She jealously watched her colleague receive the award she had hoped for.
  • The children jealously eyed their friend's larger piece of cake.
• Guarding Protectively:
  • The company jealously guards its trade secrets from competitors.
  • He jealously protected his free time, rarely agreeing to extra work.

Advanced Usage

• "jealously guarded": A common collocation describing something that is protected with great vigilance and possessiveness.
  • National sovereignty is a jealously guarded principle.
  • The recipe is a jealously guarded family secret.

Variants and Related Words

• Jealous (adjective): Feeling or showing envy; feeling or showing protective vigilance.
  • He was jealous of her success. (envious)
  • She is very jealous of her reputation. (protective)
• Jealousy (noun): The state or feeling of being jealous.
  • His promotion sparked jealousy among his peers.
• Enviously (adverb): A near-synonym specifically for the sense of "with envy."

Synonyms

• Enviously: With a feeling of discontented or resentful longing for someone else's possessions or qualities.
• Covetously: With an envious desire for something belonging to another.
• Possessively: In a manner demanding someone's total attention and love; showing a desire to own or control.

Antonyms

• Generously: In a manner showing a readiness to give more of something than is necessary or expected.
• Indifferently: In a manner having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned.
• Unselfishly: In a manner not concerned with one's own advantage; generous.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. with jealousy; in an envious manner
   • he looked at his friend's new car jealously
2. with jealousy
   • he guarded his privacy jealously

Từ đồng nghĩa

• enviously
• covetously