enviable

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.vi.ə.bl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈɛn.vɪ.ə.b(ə)l/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 N V IY0 AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Old French enviebor. Middle English envie English envy Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English enviable From envy + -able (suffix meaning ‘able or fit to be done’ forming adjectives).

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: завиден (zaviden) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Catalan: envejable — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Czech: záviděníhodný — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Dutch: benijdenswaardig — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Finnish: kadehdittava — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• French: enviable — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Galician: envexable — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Georgian: შესაშური (šesašuri) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• German: beneidenswert — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Greek: αξιοζήλευτος (axiozíleftos) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Greek: ζηλευτός (zileftós) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Ancient Greek: ἀξιόζηλος (axiózēlos) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Italian: invidiabile — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Japanese: 妬ましい (netamashii) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Japanese: 羨ましい (urayamashii) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Korean: 부럽다 (bureopda) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Latin: invidiōsus — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Macedonian: завиден (zaviden) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Manx: yn-troo — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Māori: haetara — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Polish: godny pozazdroszczenia — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Portuguese: invejável — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Russian: зави́дный (zavídnyj) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Serbo-Croatian: за́видан — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Serbo-Croatian: závidan — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Slovak: závideniahodný — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Spanish: enviable — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Spanish: envidiable — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Swedish: avundsvärd — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Tajik: рашкангез (raškangez) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Tajik: рашкомез (raškomez) — arousing or likely to arouse envy
• Tajik: рашковар (raškovar) — arousing or likely to arouse envy