unenvious

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adjective

Not envious.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveunenvious (comparative more unenvious, superlative most unenvious)

comparative more unenvious · superlative most unenvious

  1. Not envious.

    I am as sure as if I had omniscient sight into the depths of his good heart that he has distinct and unenvious joy in every pleasure that he sees other people taking.

    1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters
    1 more example

    Eleanor's sweet eyes shone so kindly on her successful rival, and she showed so frank and unenvious an admiration of Sylvia's wit and learning, displayed perhaps a trifle ostentatiously by that young lady in the ensuing conversation with Mrs. Draper, that Sylvia had a fresh, healing impulse of shame for her own recently acquired attitude of triumphing hostility towards the world.

    1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig

Origin

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APA

unenvious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unenvious

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“unenvious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unenvious. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unenvious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unenvious.

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