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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Meaning of "envied" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENVIED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENVIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Envied is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb envied in English.

WHAT DOES ENVIED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

envied

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.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ENVIED

PRESENT

Present
I envie
you envie
he/she/it envies
we envie
you envie
they envie
Present continuous
I am envying
you are envying
he/she/it is envying
we are envying
you are envying
they are envying
Present perfect
I have envied
you have envied
he/she/it has envied
we have envied
you have envied
they have envied
Present perfect continuous
I have been envying
you have been envying
he/she/it has been envying
we have been envying
you have been envying
they have been envying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I envied
you envied
he/she/it envied
we envied
you envied
they envied
Past continuous
I was envying
you were envying
he/she/it was envying
we were envying
you were envying
they were envying
Past perfect
I had envied
you had envied
he/she/it had envied
we had envied
you had envied
they had envied
Past perfect continuous
I had been envying
you had been envying
he/she/it had been envying
we had been envying
you had been envying
they had been envying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will envie
you will envie
he/she/it will envie
we will envie
you will envie
they will envie
Future continuous
I will be envying
you will be envying
he/she/it will be envying
we will be envying
you will be envying
they will be envying
Future perfect
I will have envied
you will have envied
he/she/it will have envied
we will have envied
you will have envied
they will have envied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been envying
you will have been envying
he/she/it will have been envying
we will have been envying
you will have been envying
they will have been envying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would envied
you would envied
he/she/it would envied
we would envied
you would envied
they would envied
Conditional continuous
I would be envying
you would be envying
he/she/it would be envying
we would be envying
you would be envying
they would be envying
Conditional perfect
I would have envied
you would have envied
he/she/it would have envied
we would have envied
you would have envied
they would have envied
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been envying
you would have been envying
he/she/it would have been envying
we would have been envying
you would have been envying
they would have been envying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you envie
we let´s envie
you envie
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to envie
Past participle
envied
Present Participle
envying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENVIED

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENVIED

applied
bevvied
carried
certified
chevied
chivied
classified
identified
ivied
levied
married
modified
replevied
savvied
skivvied
specified
studied
supplied
unenvied
unlevied

Synonyms and antonyms of envied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENVIED»

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

Translation of «envied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENVIED

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

Translator English - Chinese

令人羡慕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

envidiada
570 millions of speakers

English

envied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ईर्ष्या
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يحسد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

завидовал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

invejado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদ্বিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

envié
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

cemburu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beneideten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

うらやまし
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부러워
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Envied
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đầy sự khát khao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொறாமைப்பட்டதாகும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मत्सर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kıskanılan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

invidiata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zazdrościł
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заздрив
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

invidiat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζηλευτές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

benyde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Envied
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misunte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of envied

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIED»

The term «envied» is regularly used and occupies the 71.705 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «envied» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «envied» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «ENVIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word envied.
1
Ali Babacan
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
2
Beck
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
3
Sarah Dessen
I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
4
Lapo Elkann
In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
5
Baltasar Gracian
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
6
B. R. Hayden
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
7
Herodotus
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
8
Catherine Hicks
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.
9
Elia Kazan
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
10
Osama bin Laden
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENVIED»

Discover the use of envied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to envied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying
The essence of inner and outer nobility, she is the envy of her cruel stepmother and her ugly sisters. Using this familiar story, Ann and Barry Ulanov explore the psychological and theological aspects of envy and goodness.
Ann Ulanov, Barry Ulanov, 2007
2
Cinderella and her sisters: the envied and the envying
The essence of inner and outer nobility, she is the envy of her cruel stepmother and her ugly sisters. Using this familiar story, Ann and Barry Ulanov explore the psychological and theological aspects of envy and goodness.
Ann Belford Ulanov, Barry Ulanov, 1998
3
Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
The. Man. Who. Envied. Women. Yvonne Rainer "I've never seduced a virgin or intruded upon a valid marriage," declares a man who admits to the gentility of his social relations. "You can ask me about the peculiarities of my shit, just don't ask  ...
Barbara Kruger, 1994
4
The thousand and one nights: commonly called, in England, ...
Know, O my master, that there was a certain man who had a neighbour that envied him ; and the more this person envied him, so much the more did God increase the prosperity of the former. Thus it continued a long time ; but when the envied ...
5
The arabian Nights Entertainments: Translated by Lane
THE STORY OF THE ENVIEK AND THE ENVIED. Know, O my master, that there was a certain man who had a neighbour that envied him ; and the more this person envied him, so much the more did God increase the prosperity of the former.
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Objectification and (De)Humanization: 60th Nebraska ...
Now we move to the first ambivalent outgroup cluster, envied groups disliked for seeming cold but respected for competence. People do not want to be them, but they would not mind having what they have (Fiske 2011; Smith and Kim 2007).
Sarah J. Gervais, 2013
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The thousand and one nights, or, The Arabian nights ...
THE STORY OF THE ENVIER AND THE ENVIED. Know, O my master, that there was a certain man who had a neighbour that envied him ; and the more this person envied him, so much the more did God increase the prosperity of the former.
Edward William Lane, William Harvey, Owen Jones, 1847
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The Arabian Nights
said the jinnee. “I have the power to slay you, and here I am giving you a choice.” “Oh ifrit,” I stated, “it would suit you better if you pardoned me just as the envied pardoned the envier.” “And how did that happen?” he asked, and I began to tell ...
Anonymous, Jack Zipes, 1999
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The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)
Then he married her to him, and the envied became son—in—law to the king. A short time later the vizier died, and the king asked, ““Whom shall I make vizier?” They answered, ““Your son—in—law,” and the envied became vizier. And a short  ...
Muhsin Mahdi, 2008
10
Putting On Appearances: Gender and Advertising
The happiness of being envied is glamour.'" This happiness of being envied provides "a solitary form of reassurance." Others look at you with interest; you do not respond. If you do, says Berger, "you will become less enviable. . . . It is this ...
Diane Barthel, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENVIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term envied is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Radical austerity's brutal lies: How Krugman and Chomsky saw …
Are they not to be envied in this respect, even amid their sufferings and struggles. Patrick Smith is Salon's foreign affairs columnist. A longtime ... «Salon, Jul 15»
2
Has AN Wilson reached the last port of call on the tempestuous sea …
As the writer of a modest commentary on the Psalms myself, I envied his chapter on the metaphorical riches of their poetry. Yet for all the ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Nunavut Day celebrations look at past, present, future of Inuit
Nunavut Inuit leaders have a message to residents this Nunavut Day: be proud of an accomplishment envied by aboriginal groups around the ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
4
State of Origin will always be important, but it's not the future of rugby …
Sometimes New Zealand fullback Josh Hoffman never really envied State of Origin players. "Not until last night," Hoffman said on Thursday ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
5
Ma$e Closes Essence Festival Performance 'in Jesus' Name:' 'If I …
I'm to be envied. In Jesus' name." Betha, 39, initially quit rapping to become a minister in 1999 and raised some eyebrows in and out of the ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
6
Bukola Saraki: Demarche And Prognosis By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu
... praised Bukola Saraki: “OMO OLE JO BABA KAMA BINU OMO” (literally, Bukola Saraki was a chip off the father, so must not be envied!). «SaharaReporters.com, Jul 15»
7
Semper Fi: 239 Years And Counting
... Wood in WWI, the Corps steadily built a reputation for tenacity and soldier-to-soldier readiness that was envied by ally and enemy alike. «America's 1st Freedom, Jul 15»
8
Kate Middleton Debuts Brand New Hairstyle at Wimbledon
Her bouncy blowout is admired and envied by millions, but at Wimbledon, it deviated from its typical length. Kate's hair now has shorter layers ... «GoodHousekeeping.com, Jul 15»
9
Walker malicious, short-sighted on UW
Wisconsin has one of the most well-respected state university systems in the world. Our envied universities pride themselves on educating ... «Journal Times, Jul 15»
10
Murder cases rising, Jaipur cops clueless | Jaipur NYOOOZ
Not just rivals, even people within his own camp hailing from Shekhawati envied his success in the real estate business. "We have been ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»

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