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jealous
adjective as in desirous; wary
Strongest matches
anxious, apprehensive, attentive, envious, intolerant, possessive, protective, resentful, skeptical, suspicious
Weak matches
begrudging, covetous, demanding, doubting, emulous, envying, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, guarded, invidious, jaundiced, mistrustful, monopolizing, possessory, questioning, rival, solicitous, vigilant, watchful, zealous
Example Sentences
Marx: I’m very jealous that he has an alcohol company.
“This is a dark day,” Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement.
A "jealous" teenager who stabbed his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend to death has been detained for at least 17 years.
In the days before the killing, Holly had ended their relationship, with MacPhail later admitting in court he was "angry" and "jealous".
In a series of letters to Andy, Stewart wrote, “I am agonizingly jealous of your other women.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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