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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
"I was jealous of some people I recognised from school, queuing up with a ticket in their hands," he added.
Subsequently, a court was told the defendant's mental health began to decline in 2023, with Tape becoming paranoid and then jealous.
Some kids get jealous when their sibling’s birthday rolls around and all the attention turns to the birthday child.
“There are a lot of movies about women being jealous of each other, but there aren’t a lot about men,” he says.
There was little tenderness in his relationship with Marvin Gay Sr., a jealous man who drank hard and dressed in women’s clothes, a habit that embarrassed the young singer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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