Synonyms for enviable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-vee-uh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛn vi ə bəl

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Définition of enviable

Origin :
  • c.1600, from envy + -able. Related: Enviably.
  • adj desired, blessed
Example sentences :
  • What enviable privileges are annexed to the birth of an Englishman!
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Certainly, Arthur Beaufort is the most enviable fellow in Europe.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The fishermen who slept in the shelter of the Saint's Pool were enviable.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • The post of baggage master on a railroad train is not an enviable one.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various
  • But the Allies themselves were in no enviable position to relieve others.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • More than any of his books it is destined to an enviable popularity.
  • Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major
  • I seem likely to perish in the estate that he accounts so enviable.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The position of a Governor in the Colonies is not altogether an enviable one.
  • Extract from : « Six Letters From the Colonies » by Robert Seaton
  • It was another of Nostromo's triumphs, the greatest, the most enviable, the most sinister of all.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • My frame of mind as Power left me was by no means an enviable one.
  • Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles Lever

Antonyms for enviable

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