Jealousy

Definition

jealous / 'dʒelǝs / adj ၁။ ~ (of sb/ sth) မနာလိုေသာ။ အဘိဇၩာ ပြားေသာ။ He was jealous of Tom/ of Tom's success. ၂။ မနာလိုေသာ။ သဝန္တိုေသာ။ a jealous husband ❍ jealous looks. ၃။ ~ (of sth) မၾကည္ျဖဴေသာ။ ဝန္တိုမိစၧာရိွေသာ။ keep a jealous eye on one's property ❍ She's jealous of her privileges. ❏ jealously adv တခုပ္တရ။ a jealously guarded secret. ❏ jealousy / 'dʒelǝsi / n (က) [U] မနာလိုျခင္း။ be consumed by anger and jealousy. (ခ) [C] သဝန္တိုျခင္း။ She grew tired of his petty jealousies. Compare ENVY n

Examples

1. I expect some of your colleagues will be jealous.
2. [jealous of] : Other girls were jealous of her good looks.
3. [jealous of] : Sophia had admirers
4. and I was jealous of them.
5. [make someone jealous] : He would dance with other women to make her jealous.
6. [jealous of] : The singer became increasingly isolated and jealous of her privacy.