jealous

adjective

1. 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.

   jealous lover

   She gave him a jealous look.

   She stopped, and laid her hand upon his golden head, and then bent down and kissed his brow with a chastened abandonment of tenderness that would have been beautiful to behold had not the sight cut me to the heart - for I was jealous!

2. 2

   Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.

   Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:

   Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.

3. 3

   Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.

   be jealous of someone/something

   He was jealous of his friend’s success.

   I'm jealous because I'm single.

   I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

4. 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.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.

   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. 2

   To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

   […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.

Forms

comparative

jealouser, more jealous

superlative

jealousest, most jealous

past tense

jealoused

past participle

jealoused

present participle

jealousing

third person singular

jealouses