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Definition of Enviable
1. Adjective. Causing envy. "An enviable position"
Definition of Enviable
1. a. Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Definition of Enviable
1. Adjective. Arousing or likely to arouse envy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enviable
1. desirable [adj] : ENVIABLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enviable
Literary usage of Enviable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Mr. Middleton was persuaded to play various grave parts, Gwendolen having flattered
him on his enviable immobility of countenance ; and, at first a little ..."
2. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"AN enviable DISTRESS. Mr. Rogers, according to the newspapers, has been robbed
of plate by his footman, to the amount of two thousand ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"cine successfully, and enjoys an enviable reputation as a skilful and well-equipped
physician. .... enviable ..."
4. Public Utility Rates: A Discussion of the Principles and Practice Underlying by Harry Barker (1917)
"Utility Labor in an enviable Position. — There may be various other elements ...
All the public utilities are in an enviable position, among industrial ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"Al1 that day Ficha one enviable position, even though her woolly coat was getting
hot lay under the stove in the sitting- and singed, and her small black ..."
6. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1818)
"I retired filled with sensations of a nature not the most enviable. The sight
was altogether in the words of the poet. ' Sublimely gran)} and awfully ..."
7. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... cannot curb nor deny God's bountiful boon of waters— Let us down to the sea,
my soul, let us down to the sea and be glad. THE enviable ERRAND OF MASTER ..."
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