Definition of Jealous

Jealous

Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful.

Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful.

Exacting exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry.

Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.

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Jealous Quotations

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
Mike Krzyzewski

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Thurgood Marshall

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
Ice Cube

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
Adriana Lima

Younger guys are just too jealous.
Adriana Lima

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Adam Weishaupt

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
Amos Oz

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Hesiod

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Christa McAuliffe

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
Kathie Lee Gifford

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
Djuna Barnes

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Bruce Jackson

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
Clyde Tombaugh

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
Ryan Phillippe

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Jealous Translations

jealous in Afrikaans is jaloers
jealous in Danish is misundelig
jealous in Dutch is afgunstig, jaloers, ijverzuchtig
jealous in French is jaloux
jealous in Italian is geloso
jealous in Norwegian is sjalu
jealous in Spanish is celoso
jealous in Swedish is avundsjuk, svartsjuk

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