Jealous

a.	1.
	1.	Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful. I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. - Kings xix. 10. How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute! - Dr. H. More.
	2.	Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful. 'This doing wrong creates such doubts as these, Renders us jealous and disturbs our peace. - Waller. The people are so jealous of the clergy's ambition. - Swift.
	3.	Demanding exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry. Thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. - Ex. xxxiv. 14.
	4.	Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. If the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife. - Num. v. 14. To both these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. - Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. - Bacon.

Adj.	1.	jealous - showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection" Synonyms: covetous, envious
	2.	jealous - suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover" Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous

anxious, begrudging, bitter, demanding, distrustful, doubting, envious, enviousness, envying, grasping, green, green with envy, green with jealousy, green-eyed, grudging, horn-mad, insecure, invidious, invidiousness, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealousy, mistrustful, mistrusting, possessive, possessory, questioning, resentful, suspicious, threatened, vulnerable, yellow, yellow-eyed

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