Synonyms of the word

envy

• n. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
• n. An object of envious notice or feeling.
• n. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
• n. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
• n. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
• v. (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
• v. (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
• v. (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
• v. (obsolete) To hate.
• v. (obsolete) To emulate.

admire

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
• v. (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
• v. (transitive) to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation,…
• v. (transitive) to estimate or prize highly.

begrudge

• v. To grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.
• v. To be reluctant.
• v. To give reluctantly.

bitterness

• n. The quality of having a bitter taste.
• n. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

enviousness

• n. The state of being envious.

gall

• n. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting…
• n. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
• n. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
• n. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
• n. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as…
• n. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
• n. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the…
• v. (transitive) To trouble or bother.
• v. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
• v. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
• v. To exasperate.
• v. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond…
• v. To scoff; to jeer.
• n. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing…
• v. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

rancor

• n. The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

rancour

• n. Britain and Canada spelling of rancor.

resentment

• n. A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed;…
• n. (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined…
• n. (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.