2023-05-29 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด J – Jealous & Zealous & Envious

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Jealous =‘JEL-uhs’

ออกเสียง Zealous =‘ZEL-uhs’

ออกเสียง Envious = ‘EN-vee-uhs’

Longdo Dictionary

ให้คำแปล Jealous = ADJ. = ขี้หึง, หึงหวง หวาดระแวง

ให้คำแปล Zealous = adj = กระตือรือร้นมากเกิน

ให้คำแปล Envious = adj. = อิจฉา อยากได้ของคนอื่น

ให้คำแปล covetous = adj. = ที่มีความอยากได้

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Jealous & Zealous

A Jealous person feels resentment or suspicion

because of rivalry or competition of some sort:

“Sue was Jealous of her beautiful sister.”

 

A Zealous person is active, diligent, devoted:

“He was the most admired, Zealous worker in the plant.”

Jealous is pronounced “JEL-uhs” 

Zealous is sounded as “ZEL-uhs.”

 

Dictionary.com

VOCAB BUILDER

What does envious mean?

Envious means feeling, full of, or expressing envy.

—a mostly negative feeling of desire 

for something that someone else has and you do not.

 

Envy is not a good feeling

—it can be described as a mix of admiration and discontent.

But it’s not necessarily malicious.

 

Envious is very similar in meaning to jealous.

 

However, jealous usually implies a deeper resentment,

perhaps because you feel that 

you deserve the thing more than the other person,

or that it is unfair that they have it.

 

Envious is often followed by the word of 

and the person or thing that’s the object of envy,

as in “I must admit that I’m envious of her talent.’ 

 

Example:

Other people’s perfectly curated social media feeds 

often cause us to feel envious, 

but we need to keep in mind 

that they don’t show 

the whole story of what someone’s life is like

—only the highlights.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Zealous vs. Jealous

Zealous and jealous share not just a rhyme, 

but an etymology.

Both words ultimately come from the Latin zelus “jealousy,”

and in the past 

their meanings were somewhat closer to each other 

than they are today. 

 

In the 16th and 17th centuries, 

zealous occasionally was used in biblical writing 

to refer to a quality of apprehensiveness 

or jealousy of another. 

 

By the 18th century, however, 

it had completely diverged in meaning from jealous, 

signifying “warmly engaged or 

ardent on behalf of someone or something.”

 

Today, zealous often carries a connotation of excessive feeling:

it typically means “fiercely partisan” 

or “uncompromisingly enthusiastic.”

 

American Heritage®Dictionary of the English Language,

jeal′ous·ly adv.

jeal′ous·ness n.

Usage Note:

Traditional usage holds that 

we are jealous when we fear losing 

something that is important to us 

and envious when we desire that which someone else has. 

 

In this view, one might experience jealousy 

upon seeing one's spouse flirt with another 

(because of the fear of losing the spouse), 

 

while one might experience envy 

upon seeing a friend with an attractive date 

(because of one's desire 

to have an attractive date of one's own). 

 

In common usage, 

this distinction is not always observed, 

and jealousy and jealous are often used 

in situations that involve envy. 

 

Our2015 survey shows that 

the distinction is alive and well: 

large majorities of the Usage Panel 

approved the traditional uses of jealousy

(She was jealous when she saw her husband 

having dinner with another woman)

and envy 

(He was envious of the expensive sports car his neighbor bought)

 

while only a minority accepted the switched uses: 

29 percent accepted envious for the suspicious dinner, 

and 34 percent accepted jealous for the expensive sports car.

 

The last figure does mean, though, 

that a third of the Panelists accept jealous meaning "envious," 

and an even larger minority (43 percent) accept it 

when the entity being coveted is a person rather than an object,

as in 

Never having been popular myself, 

I'm jealous of your many friends.

 

It is evident from these results 

that many careful writers 

prefer to see the distinction 

between the two words maintained, 

 

with jealous being reserved for situations 

where one fears losing something 

and envious used for situations 

where one wants what one does not have.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

Jealous vs. Envious

The words are often used as synonyms, 

but 'jealous' has more meanings

 

What to Know

While many people believe that 

jealous means fearing someone will take what you have,

and envious means desiring what someone else has,

historical usage shows that both mean "covetous"

and are interchangeable 

when describing desiring someone else's possessions.

However, when referring to romantic feelings,

only "jealous" can be used to mean "possessively suspicious," 

as in "a jealous husband."

 

Is there a difference between jealous and envious?

That depends on who you ask.

Some people have a view in this matter that is similar to 

that expressed by the noted lexicographic scholar,

 

Homer Simpson: 

“I’m not jealous! I’m envious. 

Jealousy is when you worry someone will take what you have ... 

envy is wanting what someone else has.” 

 

Others, however, do not make this distinction, or differentiate 

between these two words in another fashion.

 

Let’s look at some of the ways that jealous and envious overlap.

 Though 'jealous' and 'envious' may both mean"covetous," 

only 'jealous' may be used to mean"possessively suspicious."

 

Word Origins

Both words are fairly old, having been in regular use in English 

since the 13th century, and both words have accrued a number of shades of meaning over the years. 

 

The fact that each of these words has numerous meanings 

makes it somewhat impractical to say 

“jealous means X, and envious means Y.”

 

But this matter of impracticality 

has proven to belittle deterrent to many people 

who have insisted that each one of these words 

does indeed have a single true sense.

  

One begins to see what a muddle questions of usage may be 

when one contemplates the fact that all three of the above books

are making pronouncements 

on the words jealousy (and jealous) and envy, 

all of which are in some way true, 

and all of which are also in some substantial way 

different from one another. 

 

There are indeed some semantic distinctions 

that may be made between these words, 

but it should also be noted 

that many educated people use them interchangeably.

 

Envy is most often used to refer to 

a covetous feeling toward 

another person’s attributes, possessions, or stature in life.

 

Many people use jealous to mean the same thing.

“I am envious of his good fortune”

could be changed to “I am jealous of his good fortune”

without substantially changing the meaning of the sentence 

for most people. 

So, jealous can be used for this sense of envious.

 

Jealousy and Romance

Jealous is also often encountered adjectivally 

to refer to some unwelcome feelings in a romantic vein, 

typically in which one harbors suspicion of infidelity 

or the possibility that one’s love will be stolen away. 

 

An important distinction here is that 

envious will not serve as a substitute for this use of jealous.

“He was always a jealous husband”

cannot be changed to “He was always an envious husband”

without substantially changing the meaning of the sentence.

So while jealous may be used to mean 

both “covetous” and “possessively suspicious”, 

envious is only comfortable in the first of those two senses.

 

Which of course raises the following question:

given that jealous has more meanings than envious,

does the word envious feel envious or jealous (or both) 

of its synonym’s greater semantic breadth?