EGAVE

jealous

About 5.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective 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. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    jealous lover
  2. adjective Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
  3. adjective Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
    be jealous of someone/something
  4. adjective Suspicious; apprehensive.
  5. verb To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
  6. verb To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

Similar words

envious distrustful overjealous desirous covetous green-eyed jealousy envy zealous protective

Often followed by

of and god husband eye for that because rage

Word family

jealously jealousness jealousnesses

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