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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

Meaning of "envies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENVIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENVIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Envies 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 envies in English.

WHAT DOES ENVIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

envies

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 ENVIES

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 envies
you would envies
he/she/it would envies
we would envies
you would envies
they would envies
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 envies
you would have envies
he/she/it would have envies
we would have envies
you would have envies
they would have envies
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 ENVIES

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENVIES

anchovies
bevies
bevvies
bivvies
cavies
chevies
civies
civvies
Davies
gravies
heavies
ivies
levies
navies
navvies
privies
savvies
skivvies
the heavies
vies

Synonyms and antonyms of envies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENVIES»

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

Translation of «envies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENVIES

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

Translator English - Chinese

羡慕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

envidias
570 millions of speakers

English

envies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

envies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحسد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

завидует
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

invejas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিংসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

envies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Iri hati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beneidet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

envies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부러워
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Envies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

envies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொறாமைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

द्वेष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Envies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

invidie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zazdrości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заздрить
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

invidii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζηλεύει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beny
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Envies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Envies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of envies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIES»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENVIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «envies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «envies» 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 envies

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7 QUOTES WITH «ENVIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word envies.
1
Sholom Aleichem
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.
2
Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
3
Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
4
Robert M. Pirsig
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
5
Yeardley Smith
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
6
Richard Steele
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
7
Rory Stewart
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENVIES»

Discover the use of envies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to envies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Envies: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.ndash;Glenn ClarkI'd never try to learn from someone I didn't envy at least a little. If I never envied, I'd never learn.ndash;Betsy Cohen
‎2008
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A Philosophical Companion to First-order Logic
Thus, 'Everybody envies somebody' is true just in case each of the sentences, ' Peter envies somebody', 'James envies somebody', . . . , is true; and 'Peter envies somebody' is, in turn, true just in case at least one of the sentences, 'Peter ...
R. I. G. Hughes, 1993
3
Frege: Philosophy of Language
'Peter envies John'. From this we form the one-place predicate 'Peter envies C by removing the proper name 'John'— the Greek letter '$' here serving merely to indicate where the gap occurs that is left by the removal of the proper name.
Michael Dummett, 1981
4
Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
Heaney contrasts Eliot's reading of Dante with that of another poet of the 1930s, Osip Mandelstam, and his essay 'Conversation about Dante.'3 Mandelstam's essay is an important one for Heaney: he quotes from it extensively in 'Envies and ...
Conor McCarthy, 2008
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Social Goals and Social Organization: Essays in Memory of ...
One class of generalizations is based on the number of agents that each agent envies as compared to the number by which he is envied. Daniel [1975] proposes such a generalization, which will be considered in more detail in Section 4.
Leonid Hurwicz, David Schmeidler, Hugo Sonnenschein, 1985
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Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
364). 122. Seamus Heaney, 'Envies and Identifications: Dante and the Modern Poet', Irish University Review, Vol. 15, Part 1, 1985, p. 19. 123. William Carleton, Lough Derg Pilgrim, quoted by Heaney in 'A Tale of Two Islands', art. cit., p. 11.
Michael Parker, 1993
7
Variants in Economic Theory: Selected Works of Hal R. Varian
If T is a strongly efficient allocation, then there is some agent that envies no one and there is some agent that no one envies. Proof. Suppose to the contrary that each agent envies some other agent. Then, since there are only a finite number of ...
Hal R. Varian
8
Zhuangzi: Basic Writings
snake, the snake envies the wind, the wind envies the eye, and the eye envies the mind. The Kui said to the millepede, “I have this one leg that l hop along on, though I make little progress. Now how in the world do you manage to work all ...
‎2013
9
The World Court
The Farmer envies the Farmer, the Teacher envies the Teacher, the Musician envies the Musician, the Lawyer envies the Lawyer, the Politician envies the Politician, the Ruler envies the Ruler, and one Government envies another.
World's Court League, Inc, 1916
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The World Court: A Magazine of International Progress
The Farmer envies the Farmer, the Teacher envies the Teacher, the Musician envies the Musician, the Lawyer envies the Lawyer, the Politician envies the Politician, the Ruler envies the Ruler, and one Government envies another.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENVIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term envies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Movie Review: A crafty story
Now the new movie La liste de mes envies (The List of My Desires) looks at what happens when a person with only the most modest wishes for ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Your patience will be rewarded with the atmospheric Arclight and …
Crumb was and is an angry artist using cartoons as a means of lashing out at a world he variously detests, envies, and judges. Bell's affect is ... «A.V. Club DC, Jul 15»
3
Demi Lovato Jealousy: 'Cool For The Summer' Singer Says 'I Envy …
(Photo : Official Facebook/Demi Lovato) Demi Lovato surprising revealed during an online interview that she envies the lives of her fans, stating ... «Fashion & Style, Jul 15»
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Aldridge's arrival need not mean goodbye to “the beautiful game”
It is a job most every other coach in the league envies. “They'll figure out his function in that offense,” D'Antoni said. “They'll find the best options ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
5
Whitby teen a finalist in Discovery 2015 Young...
He talks about the people behind companies such as Netflix and Apple, the Steve Jobs and Reed Hastings of the world and envies the passion ... «durhamregion.com, Jul 15»
6
Author discovers hidden talent
In the book, Henry, one of the critters in the Garden of Eden, envies the abilities of his best friend and his sister -- who can burp the alphabet ... «Wairarapa Times-Age, Jul 15»
7
Somaliland: Life of Farmers and Shepherds Seriously Affected by …
Hurre envies them, he said with a laugh. He knows that Hargeisa would offer his seven children greater opportunities for education, but he also ... «UNPO, Jul 15»
8
Defacing the dollar on the clouds above
Most comments came from the Presidents Nobody Quite Remembers Club, a large group that envies the famous ones' monetary celebrity. «Daily Press, Jul 15»
9
KENYATA for enhanced trade
She stated that Zambia envies Kenyan government for its robust measures that have been put in place to improve the living conditions of its ... «ZNBC, Jul 15»
10
Malachy Tallack and sixty degrees of loneliness
On a Norwegian island he observes and envies friendly chat between the customers and staff of a small shop, and writes: "...I felt a deep ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»

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