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100 Other Words for “Jealous”

February 6, 2026

100 Other Words for

No. Term Definition
1. Adversarial showing rivalry or hostility
2. Aggrieved feeling wronged or resentful
3. Angry feeling strong displeasure
4. Anxious uneasy about losing someone
5. Avaricious greedily wanting what others have
6. Bitter harboring resentful anger
7. Bridling reacting with offended resentment
8. Brooding moodily dwelling on perceived slights
9. Catty spitefully critical, often from envy
10. Chippy touchy and easily resentful
11. Clannish protective of one’s own group
12. Comparative measuring self against others
13. Competitive eager to outdo others
14. Covetous desiring what another possesses
15. Defensive protecting oneself from rivalry
16. Discontented dissatisfied with one’s situation
17. Distrustful suspicious of others’ intentions
18. Edgy tense and irritable
19. Emulous eager to match another’s success
20. Envious resenting another’s advantages
21. Exclusionary resenting others entering one’s space
22. Fearing replacement worried about being supplanted
23. Fretful uneasy and easily bothered
24. Frustrated upset by blocked desires
25. Galled irritated by another’s success
26. Green-eyed marked by envy
27. Grudging reluctantly resentful
28. Guarded cautious from suspicion
29. Hard-feeling harboring harsh resentment
30. Hostile unfriendly and antagonistic
31. Ill-disposed inclined to resent others
32. Insecure lacking confidence; prone to envy
33. Intolerant resentful of others’ attention
34. Irritable easily annoyed and resentful
35. Jaundiced cynical; resentfully skeptical
36. Joyless unable to share others’ happiness
37. Keenly possessive strongly protective of what’s “mine”
38. Leery suspicious and wary
39. Malcontent chronically dissatisfied and resentful
40. Malicious wishing harm from envy
41. Mean-spirited unkindly resentful of others
42. Miffed slightly offended or annoyed
43. Mistrustful inclined to doubt others
44. Moody sullenly changeable from envy
45. Narrow pettily resentful
46. Nasty spiteful and unpleasant
47. Needling provoking from spite or envy
48. Negative inclined to resentful judgment
49. Oppositional resisting others’ success or attention
50. Overprotective excessively guarding relationships
51. Pained hurt by another’s advantage
52. Paranoid unreasonably suspicious and fearful
53. Peckish irritably touchy and resentful
54. Peeved annoyed; mildly resentful
55. Petty small-mindedly resentful
56. Possessive wanting exclusive control or attention
57. Prickly easily offended and defensive
58. Protective guarding against perceived rivals
59. Put out annoyed and resentful
60. Rancorous deeply bitter and resentful
61. Rankled persistently irritated or resentful
62. Reactive quick to resent perceived threats
63. Resentful feeling bitterness at others’ gain
64. Rivalrous driven by rivalry and envy
65. Sardonic bitterly mocking from resentment
66. Scornful contemptuously resentful
67. Self-comparing measuring self against others
68. Self-doubting uncertain; prone to envy
69. Self-protective guarding status or affection
70. Shady suspicious and distrustful
71. Skeptical doubting, often from resentment
72. Sly cunningly resentful or envious
73. Smoldering quietly burning with resentment
74. Snappish quick to bite back
75. Snide indirectly mocking from envy
76. Spiteful seeking to hurt from resentment
77. Stingy-hearted ungenerous in praise or joy
78. Stung hurt and resentful
79. Sulky sullenly resentful
80. Suspicious doubting others; fearing betrayal
81. Tense strained by insecurity
82. Territorial protecting one’s perceived domain
83. Threatened feeling endangered by a rival
84. Touchy easily upset or offended
85. Truculent aggressively defiant and hostile
86. Twisted warped by envy or resentment
87. Uncharitable unwilling to think kindly
88. Uneasy restless from insecurity
89. Ungenerous reluctant to credit others
90. Unhappy displeased at others’ good fortune
91. Unkind harsh from resentment
92. Unsettled restless and insecure
93. Unsporting resenting others’ success
94. Vengeful seeking payback from resentment
95. Venomous spitefully hostile
96. Wary cautious of rivals
97. Watchful alert for threats to status
98. Whiny complaining from resentment
99. Withholding holding back praise or affection
100. Wounded hurt pride fueling resentment
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