| enviable | (adj) causing envy, Example: an enviable position |
| enviably | (adv) in an enviable manner, Example: she was enviably fluent in French |
| enviously | (adv) with jealousy; in an envious manner, Syn. jealously, covetously, Example: he looked at his friend's new car jealously |
| environment | (n) the totality of surrounding conditions, Example: he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room |
| environment | (n) the area in which something exists or lives, Syn. surroundings, surround, environs, Example: the country--the flat agricultural surround |
| environmental | (adj) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings, Example: environmental factors |
| environmental | (adj) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment, Example: environmental pollution |
| environmental condition | (n) the state of the environment |
| environmentalism | (n) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth, Ant. hereditarianism |
| environmentalism | (n) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction |
| Enviable | 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. -- |
| Envie | v. i. [ See Vie. ] To vie; to emulate; to strive. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Envier | n. One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Envigor | v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Envious | a. [ OF. envios, F. envieux, fr. L. invidiosus, fr. invidia envy. See Envy, and cf. Invidious. ] Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] My soul is envious of mine eye. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ] Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Prov. xxiv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ] He to him leapt, and that same envious gage No men are so envious of their health. Jer. Taylor. -- |
| Environ | adv. [ F. ] About; around. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Environ | v. t. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, Environed he was with many foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Environment | n. [ Cf. F. environnement. ] It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| environmental | adj. THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs. |
| Environs | n. pl. [ F. ] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; |