jealous

Forms

1.Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
- She gave him a jealous look.
2.Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
3.Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
- He was jealous of his friend’s success.
- I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
- The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.
4.Suspicious; apprehensive.
- I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.

1.To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.(slang)
- If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
- Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
- But another part of me is jealousing because Xifeng is looking at Ify like she is special, almost like she is wanting to call her daughter, and I am wanting Xifeng all to myself.
2.To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

Rare· #4944

First attested in 1382.

From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”).

Doublet of zealous.