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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, coveting, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, grudgingness, hatred, heartburn, ill will, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, opposition, prejudice, resentfulness, resentment, rivalry, spite |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
| Antonyms: | comfort, confidence, contentedness, good will, kindness, pleasure |
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| Main Entry: | discontent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissatisfaction |
| Synonyms: | depression, discontentment, displeasure, envy, fretfulness, regret, restlessness, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation |
| Antonyms: | contentedness, easiness, happiness, patience, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | dissatisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discontent, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, anxiety, aversion, boredom, chagrin, complaint, desolation, disapproval, discomfort, discouragement, disfavor, disgruntlement, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, disrelish, distaste, distress, ennui, envy, exasperation, fretfulness, frustration, heartburn, hopelessness, indisposition, irritation, jealousy, lamentation, malcontent, malcontentment, oppression, querulousness, regret, resentment, trouble, uneasiness, weariness, worry |
| Antonyms: | contentment, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, allergy to, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, coldness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, invidiousness, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignance, militancy, no use for, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | ill will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitter feeling |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bad blood, bad will, bitterness, blame, despite, dislike, enmity, envy, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hate, hatred, hatred; hard feelings, hostility, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, no love lost, no love lost, objection, rancor, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, unfriendliness, venom |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, friendship, good feelings, good will, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | green-eyed monster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
| Synonyms: | envy, green in the eye, jaundiced eye |
| Main Entry: | emulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambition |
| Synonyms: | ambitiousness, aspiration, competition, envy, rivalry |
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| Concept: | Discontent. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction; dissent., disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret; repining, taking on; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness (lamentation); hypercriticism., inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness., malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, laudator temporis acti; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer., cave of Adullam, indignation meeting, "winter of our discontent" [Henry VI].
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| Antonyms: | content |
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