jealous
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1382. From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Doublet of zealous.
Inflected forms:
form: jealouser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more jealous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jealousest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most jealous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: iealous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: jealouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jealousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jealoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jealoused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: iealous
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: jealous lover
She gave him a jealous look.
She stopped, and laid her hand upon his golden head, and then bent down and kissed his brow with a chastened abandonment of tenderness that would have been beautiful to behold had not the sight cut me to the heart - for I was jealous!
gloss: Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
pos: adj
examples: Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.
gloss: Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
pos: adj
examples: be jealous of someone/something
He was jealous of his friend’s success.
I'm jealous because I'm single.
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.
gloss: Suspicious; apprehensive.
pos: adj
examples: I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.
At length […] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, […] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; […] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.
gloss: To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
But another part of me is jealousing because Xifeng is looking at Ify like she is special, almost like she is wanting to call her daughter, and I am wanting Xifeng all to myself.
gloss: To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.
Related words: zeal
zealot
zealous
Derived words: hyperjealous
jealous as a Barbary pigeon
jealous husbands problem
jealous-like
jealously
jealousness
jealousy
nonjealous
overjealous
superjealous
unjealous
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