jealousとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛləs/
• ハイフネーション: jeal‧ous
• 韻: -ɛləs

形容詞

jealous (comparative jealouser または more jealous, superlative jealousest または most jealous)

1. Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity. [from 13th c.]
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     She stopped, and laid her hand upon his golden head, and then bent down and kissed his brow with a chastened abandonment of tenderness that would have been beautiful to behold had not the sight cut me to the heart - for I was jealous!

2. Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates. [from 14th c.]

   For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jehovah, is a jealous God. —Exodus 34:14 (NET)

3. Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

   • 1899, Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:

     The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.

   I'm jealous because I'm single.

4. Suspecting, suspicious.
   • 1823, Walter Scott, Quentin Durward:

     At length [...] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, [...] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; [...] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.

使用する際の注意点

Some usage guides seek to distinguish "jealous" from “envious”, using jealous to mean “protective of one’s own position or possessions” – one “jealously guards what one has” – and envious to mean “desirous of others’ position or possessions” – one “envies what others have”. ^[1] This distinction is also maintained in the psychological and philosophical literature.^[2][3] However, this distinction is not always reflected in usage, as reflected in the quotations of famous authors (above) using the word jealous in the sense “envious (of the possessions of others)”.

派生語

• jealous-like adjective
• jealously adverb
• jealousy noun
• jealousness noun

関連する語

• zeal
• zealot
• zealous

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