Envious
King James Dictionary [1]
En'Vious, a. Feeling or harboring envy repining or feeling uneasiness, at a view of the excellence, prosperity or happiness of another pained by the desire of possessing some superior good which another possesses, and usually disposed to deprive him of that good, to lessen it or to depreciate it in common estimation. Sometimes followed by against, but generally and properly by at, before the person envied.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Proverbs 14
Be not envious of the blessings or prosperity of others.
1. Tinctured with envy as an envious disposition. 2. Excited or directed by envy as an envious attack.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( a.) Excessively careful; cautious.
(2): ( a.) Inspiring envy.
(3): ( a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; - said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; - followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
(4): ( a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
