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jeal‧ous/ˈdʒeləs/ adjective
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : jelous, from Late Latin zelus; ⇨ zeal]
1. feeling unhappy because someone has something that you wish you had ⇨ envious
jealous of
　 ▪ Why are you so jealous of his success?
　 ▪ You’re just jealous of her.
► Do not say ‘jealous about’ someone or something or ‘jealous with’ someone. Say jealous of someone or something.

2. feeling angry and unhappy because someone you like or love is showing interest in another person, or another person is showing interest in them:
　 ▪ She gets jealous if I even look at another woman.
　 ▪ He was talking to Nina to make me jealous.
jealous husband/wife/lover etc

3. jealous of something
formal wanting to keep or protect something that you have, because you are proud of it:
　 ▪ a country jealous of its heritage
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THESAURUS
▪jealous feeling unhappy because someone has something that you want and cannot have :
　 ▪ Maybe he's jealous because I got the job and he didn't.
　 ▪ Sharon had always been jealous of her sister's long blonde hair.
▪envious especially written wishing that you had something nice or special that someone else has :
　 ▪ When I saw the garden, I was really envious.
　 ▪ She knew she was beautiful and enjoyed the envious looks of other women.
▪green with envy very envious :
　 ▪ You'll be green with envy when you see their new house.
▪covetous formal having a very strong desire to have something that someone else has :
　 ▪ The King was a covetous and grasping man.

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a jealous rage
▪ He killed his wife in a jealous rage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
just
▪ The truth was that they were just jealous they had not thought of it before and made all of that money.
▪ They're just jealous of our success.
so
▪ It had been foolishness to be so jealous.
▪ The girl you were so jealous of.
▪ I was so jealous, checking her out for lies, hating every moment she was out of my sight.
▪ It's treated like a child and gets so jealous.
very
▪ He is a very jealous person.
▪ The spirits are very jealous, Manshin Ahjima explained.
▪ Horses can be very jealous, and very possessive.
▪ The girl in Mathilde's story was named Louisa, and she was engaged to a very jealous man named Antonio.
▪ I don't mean he'd go up fire escapes and all that, but he was very jealous.
NOUN
husband
▪ A jealous husband using an axe on his wife.
▪ Keitel is badly miscast as the comically jealous husband.
lover
▪ A jealous lover certainly would be acting on his own.
man
▪ Parr did not consider himself a jealous man, in any way.
▪ Ro is not a conventionally jealous man, not like the types I have known.
▪ The girl in Mathilde's story was named Louisa, and she was engaged to a very jealous man named Antonio.
▪ But Haakon was a jealous man, with no intention of sharing the throne with his well-received cousin.
▪ Parr was not a jealous man, he told himself, but he was at least a human one.
rage
▪ Her jealous rage subsided; she stroked the horse's neck.
▪ Rumors have swirled for years that Hearst shot Ince in a jealous rage.
▪ It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair.
wife
▪ It was Zeus' jealous wife Hera, not the innocuous underworld custodian Hades, who made Hercules' life a nightmare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jealous husband
▪ Corwin has several female friends, and says his wife has never been jealous.
▪ I guess some of the other kids are jealous of her talent.
▪ Maybe he's jealous because I got the job and he didn't.
▪ My girlfriend gets jealous if I even look at another woman.
▪ Police believe the shootings may have been the work of a jealous boyfriend.
▪ Rasputin was killed by men who were jealous of his influence with the Russian royal family.
▪ Some fathers are jealous of the attention a new baby receives, even if they won't admit it.
▪ Some parents feel jealous if their child loves the nanny or babysitter.
▪ Trying to make your boyfriend or girlfriend jealous isn't a good idea.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A jealous husband using an axe on his wife.
▪ His wife Kasturbal was a beautiful young woman and he felt more jealous of her than ever.
▪ I never felt jealous either, never believed I would be.
▪ Maureen showed an unexpected aptitude for driving and learned very quickly but Helen was not jealous.
▪ She can not say she is jealous of pictures on a page.
▪ That kind of jealous behaviour isn't conducive to having a healthy, strong relationship.