jealously
/dʒˈɛləsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously."
- "Ah! my brother, we do well to watch our birthright jealously; the least invasion on the meanest peasant, the slightest encroachment of the powerful, are not matters to be neglected—such are the first steps of tyranny."
- "Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband."
- "Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman."
- "So be warned – that influencer you are jealously watching travel the world might not be telling you every piece of the story. There’s a chance they never even left home at all."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more jealously (comparative)
most jealously (superlative)