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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
Edward Bok

Meaning of "enviable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENVIABLE

enviable  [ˈɛnvɪəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENVIABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enviable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ENVIABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

enviable

Envy

Envy is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it" Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his envy, but they also wish to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more just social system. However, psychologists have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy—benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force.

Definition of enviable in the English dictionary

The definition of enviable in the dictionary is exciting envy; fortunate or privileged.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENVIABLE


agreeable
əˈɡrɪəbəl
amiable
ˈeɪmɪəbəl
appreciable
əˈpriːʃɪəbəl
identifiable
aɪˌdɛntɪˈfaɪəbəl
impermeable
ɪmˈpɜːmɪəbəl
imperviable
ɪmˈpɜːvɪəbəl
irrepleviable
ˌɪrɪˈplɛvɪəbəl
leviable
ˈlɛvɪəbəl
liable
ˈlaɪəbəl
obviable
ˈɒbvɪəbəl
payable
ˈpeɪəbəl
permeable
ˈpɜːmɪəbəl
playable
ˈpleɪəbəl
reliable
rɪˈlaɪəbəl
repleviable
rɪˈplɛvɪəbəl
undeniable
ˌʌndɪˈnaɪəbəl
unenviable
ʌnˈɛnvɪəbəl
unreliable
ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəbəl
variable
ˈvɛərɪəbəl
viable
ˈvaɪəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENVIABLE

envermeil
enviableness
enviably
envied
envier
envies
envious
enviously
enviousness
enviro
environ
environics
environment
Environment Agency
environment-friendly
environmental
environmental assessment
environmental audit
environmental health

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENVIABLE

able
dependent variable
depreciable
diable
differentiable
dummy variable
independent variable
insatiable
invariable
justifiable
modifiable
multivariable
negotiable
non-negotiable
notifiable
photocopiable
quantifiable
random variable
sociable
unsociable
verifiable

Synonyms and antonyms of enviable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENVIABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «enviable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of enviable

Translation of «enviable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENVIABLE

Find out the translation of enviable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enviable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enviable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

令人羡慕的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

envidiable
570 millions of speakers

English

enviable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गहरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحسد عليه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

завидная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

invejável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাঁছনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enviable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dicemburui
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beneidenswert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

うらやましい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부러운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enviable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đáng thèm muốn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொறாமையூட்டும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kıskanılacak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

invidiabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pozazdroszczenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

завидна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de invidiat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αξιοζήλευτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

benydenswaardige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avundsvärd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misunnelsesverdig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enviable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIABLE»

The term «enviable» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.446 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enviable

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8 QUOTES WITH «ENVIABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enviable.
1
Roy Barnes
Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.
2
John Battelle
Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create even more of it. The company also has created a huge base of developers for its platform, but the ecosystem is incomplete compared to vertically integrated OSes like iOS, Mac or Windows.
3
Edward Bok
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
4
Tony Curtis
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
5
Graeme Murphy
Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
6
Lee Radziwill
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
7
Steven Rattner
To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.
8
George Washington
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENVIABLE»

Discover the use of enviable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enviable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that ...
Ann Rhoades knows how to do it. Built on Values offers real, step-by-step information about how to go about selecting core values, figuring out the behaviors that go with them, and reinforcing them."—Dr.
Ann Rhoades, 2010
2
Melville and His Circle: The Last Years
Melville probably composed the poem "The Enviable Isles" first, wrote the mostly prose "Rammon" to precede it, and then removed "The Enviable Isles" for inclusion in John Marr and Other Sailors,76 where he entitled it "The Enviable Isles ...
William B. Dillingham, 2008
3
The Enviable Lifestyle: Creating a Successful Massage ...
It also requires cash flow. This book is loaded with practical, hands-on information specifically directed at the massage industry; a detailed roadmap for charting your individual business journey.
Bill Norman, Shelley Johnson, 2008
4
Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction ...
Throughout Greek and Roman, and later medieval, philosophy, you find the pursuit of the summon bonum—the highest good, or the good life— as something that's somehow going to combine these two aspects, the enviable and the ...
‎2014
5
The Wealthy Freelancer
Here's a glimpse of what's waiting for you inside this book: * Why the typical one-size-fits-all marketing advice rarely works, and a fool-proof system for determining the optimal mix of marketing activities for your specific circumstances ...
Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage, 2010
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Garner's Modern American Usage
lohp/. enviable; envious. That which is enviable arouses envy or is at least worthy of it. A person who is envious feels or is struck by envy. Envious usually takes the preposition of <envious of her sister's success>, but historically has also taken ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
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Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins
When I first set out to write about envy, a magazine editor to whom I mentioned it asked me if I realized I was of course myself highly enviable. Truth to tell, I'd thought of myself as lucky but scarcely enviable. When I asked how so, she replied ...
Joseph Epstein, 2003
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The Facts on File Guide to Good Writing
Note that in envelop the stress falls on the second syllable, while in envelope it falls on the first syllable. enviable/envious The adjectives enviable and envious are close in meaning but are not identical. Enviable means “causing envy” (an ...
Martin H. Manser, 2009
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Executive Greed: Examining Business Failures that ...
The company's enviable success prior to its acquisition thus has devolved later into the failure of the first kind—the failure to compete with an edge over its rivals. In other words, the enviable business performance could lead to changes in ...
Vinay B. Kothari, 2010
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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
envious, enviable (adjs.) Envious means "feeling or showing envy," as in He was rich and handsome, but we tried not to be envious, while enviable means "worthy or desirable enough to be envied or to cause envy," as in She had an enviable ...
Kenneth G. Wilson, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENVIABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enviable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Khloé Kardashian Instagrams a Pic of Her Enviable Booty—That …
Talk about some real brother-sister love. Khloé Kardashian took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a pic of her superfit backside looking ... «E! Online, Jul 15»
2
London's striking tube drivers have done rightwing nostalgists a favour
And that's what the RMT has demonstrated by repeatedly shutting down the city and jacking members' pay up to enviable heights; that the right ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Joanna Krupa looks effortlessly glam in floral maxi as she shops …
The beautiful blonde hid her eyes behind sunglasses, before removing them to reveal natural make-up which highlighted her enviable ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Wimbledon 2015 Women's Final: TV Schedule, Start Time and Live …
No one outside of Muguruza's immediate family will expect her to win, but that can be an enviable position for athletes. Even Muguruza's ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
5
Rita Ora's Monochromatic Take on Parisian Street Style
This is achieved through a balance of oxblood shades working in tandem to accentuate Ora's enviable physique. A leather skirt provides an ... «Vogue.com, Jul 15»
6
Sam Faiers displays her enviable figure in a plunging swimsuit as …
She's kept her new romance relatively out of the limelight after her past relationship with Joey Essex turned sour. But Sam Faiers, 24, couldn't ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
Imperva Seen Having 'Enviable Runway For Growth' IMPV
Clearly, the company has a large and enviable runway for growth." Nandury said his research indicates almost all of the world's large ... «Investor's Business Daily, Jul 15»
8
An enviable back catalogue
Helme has an enviable back catalogue, bolstered further by his acclaimed works with The Yards. But it was The Rookery's knack for melody ... «Hemel Gazette, Jul 15»
9
TOWIE's Lauren Pope as she joins attempt to break catwalk world …
Lauren showed off her enviable figure in the black and white jumpsuit, which showed off the reality TV star's sunkissed arms and shoulders. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
Superwoman Hilaria Baldwin Shows Off Her Enviable Post-Baby …
Now all we need to do is master the craft, marry Alec Baldwin, have a baby or two, and then post incredible post-baby body selfies — and we ... «Life & Style Weekly, Jul 15»

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