Definitions For Envy

noun

  • Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  • A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
  • The feeling of wanting to have what someone else has
  • Someone or something that causes envy

verb

  • Be envious of; set one's heart on
  • Feel envious towards; admire enviously
  • To feel a desire to have what someone else has : to feel envy because of (someone or something)

Is Envies a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11

The word Envy is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Envy in a Sentence

  • My envy of his success
  • Their exotic vacations inspired envy in their friends.
  • We watched with envy as the yacht slid past us.
  • I envy you for your large group of friends.
  • I envy the way you've made so many friends.

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