enviable
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Etymology edit
From Middle French enviable.
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enviable (comparative more enviable, superlative most enviable)
- Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
- 1863, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Douglas Jerrold”, in My Miscellanies. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83:
- He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.
- c. 1870, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Laura E. Kendall, Monsieur Lecoq:
- This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation.
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arousing or likely to arouse envy
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enviable (plural enviables)
- enviable
- un sort peu enviable ― an unenviable fate
Further reading edit
- “enviable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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enviable m or f (masculine and feminine plural enviables)