How to pronounce “jealous”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• 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. [from 13th c.]
• Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover. [from 14th c.]
• Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
• Suspicious; apprehensive.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive, slang) To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
• (transitive, Australian Aboriginal) To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

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