English-French translations for jealous

• jaloux
  Est-ce parce que, lorsqu’on les goûte à l’aveuglette, les vins anglais sont meilleurs que les vins français ou autres et que nos concurrents sont jaloux? Is it that when tasted blind with French wines and others, English wines come out on top for taste, thus our competitors are simply jealous?
  ECHO est, à juste titre, jaloux de sa réputation de fournisseur d'aide humanitaire libre de tout lien et de toute immixtion politiques. ECHO is justifiably jealous of its reputation for delivering humanitarian assistance without political strings being attached and without any political infusion.
• envieux
• jalouse
  Les Russes y gardent jalousement l'accès à la mer Noire. The Russians will jealously guard access to the Black Sea from there.
  La politique de défense est l'une des chasses les plus jalousement gardées par les États membres. Defence policy is one of the areas most jealously guarded by the Member States.
  Elle est gouvernée par des gnomes politiques occupés à garder jalousement leur petit trésor. It is governed by political gnomes busy jealously guarding their small treasure.

Definition of jealous

• 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.
• Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
• Suspecting, suspicious

Examples

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

Related words

• jealousy
• jealously
• jealous person
• be jealous
• be jealous of
• professional jealousy