jealous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival

   a jealous lover

2. 2
   adj

   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

3. 3
   adj

   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:

4. 4
   adj

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

   be jealous of someone/something

5. 5
   adj

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.

   If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   showing extreme cupidity

Etymology

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.