envier

[ en-vee-er ]

noun

1. a person who feels envy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of envier¹

First recorded in 1500–10; envy + -er ¹

Example Sentences

I discovered that I didn’t harbor any grudges and that I’m not a hater or an envier.

From Los Angeles Times

The late communist dictator Envier Hoxha banned religion in 1967, driving Albania's Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim faithful alike underground in his drive to create what he boasted was the world's first atheist state.

From Reuters

Your first conclusion--as a world in which there are so many villains is naturally suspicious--will be, that this letter is written either by some one who intends to set up some unjust claim to your rightful inheritance, by some disappointed suitor of your bride, or by some malevolent envier of another's happiness.

From Project Gutenberg

But when he is sick of family life and the social life, he visits the Red Room, and there he meets the redoubtable Borg, his admirer Isaac, his secret enemy and envier Struve, the man who never has any money, and the sarcastic Sell�n, who is gradually preparing his second success, after all his imitators have accustomed the public to his manner.

From Project Gutenberg

Every endowment that honours man, adorned him; that, even his envier must admit Nature had richly crowned him with her gifts; and the education he, sprung from one of the richest mercantile families of the city of N----, enjoyed, had brought those gifts to their highest perfection; but he had one shadow-side, and this was his choleric temperament; a failing sufficient to plunge him into ruin.

From Project Gutenberg