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enviable
(encz) | enviable,záviděníhodný |
Enviable
(gcide) | Enviable \En"vi*a*ble\, a. [From Envy.]
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire
to posses or to resemble.
[1913 Webster]
One of most enviable of human beings. --Macaulay.
-- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.
[1913 Webster] |
enviable
(wn) | enviable
adj 1: causing envy; "an enviable position" |
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unenviable
(encz) | unenviable,nezáviděníhodný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Enviable
(gcide) | Enviable \En"vi*a*ble\, a. [From Envy.]
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire
to posses or to resemble.
[1913 Webster]
One of most enviable of human beings. --Macaulay.
-- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.
[1913 Webster] |
Enviableness
(gcide) | Enviable \En"vi*a*ble\, a. [From Envy.]
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire
to posses or to resemble.
[1913 Webster]
One of most enviable of human beings. --Macaulay.
-- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.
[1913 Webster] |
Unenviable
(gcide) | Unenviable \Unenviable\
See enviable. |
unenviable
(wn) | unenviable
adj 1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or
embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult)
moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed
his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable
position of resorting to an act he had planned to save
for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward,
embarrassing, sticky, unenviable]
2: so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy;
"unenviable notoriety" |
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