jealous

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj jealous showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages "he was never covetous before he met her","jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions","envious of their art collection"
  • adj jealous suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival "a jealous lover"
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• Interesting fact: Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
• • Jealous Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful. "'This doing wrong creates such doubts as these,
    Renders us jealous and disturbs our peace.""The people are so jealous of the clergy's ambition."
  • Jealous Demanding exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry. "Thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."
  • Jealous Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. "If the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife .""To both these sisters have I sworn my love:
    Each jealous of the other, as the stung
    Are of the adder.""It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous ."
  • Jealous Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful. "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts.""How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute!"
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• • jealous Full of zeal; zealous in the service of a person or cause; solicitous for the honor or interests of one's self or of another, or of some institution, cause, etc.: followed by for.
  • jealous Anxiously watchful; suspiciously vigilant; much concerned; suspicious.
  • jealous Specifically Troubled by the suspicion or the knowledge that the love, good will, or success one desires to retain or secure has been diverted from one's self to another or others; suspicious or bitterly resentful of successful rivalry: absolute or followed by of with an object: as, a jealous husband or lover; to be jealous of a competitor in love or in business, of one's mistress, or of the attentions of others toward her.
  • jealous Fearful; afraid.
  • jealous Doubtful.
  • jealous Synonyms See envy.
  • jealous To suspect; distrust.
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• • adj Jealous jel′us suspicious of or incensed at rivalry: anxious to defend the honour of
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
• Napoleon Hill

  

  “No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.”
• Joseph Addison

  

  “The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.”
• Francois De La Rochefoucauld

  

  “Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.”
• Johann Kaspar Lavater

  

  “The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
• Clare Boothe Luce

  

  “Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”

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