enviable

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/ˈɛn.vi.ə.bl̩/

adjective

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adjective
Very desirable and likely to make others jealous.
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adjective
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Arousing or likely to arouse envy.

Examples

Sami and Layla led an enviable life.
Yanni and Skura were living an enviable life.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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/ˈɛn.vɪ.ə.b(ə)l/

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She has a very enviable position.
He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.
As enviable as summer in the Hamptons can be -- stunning weather, beaches, greenery, produce, and yes, people -- autumn is when the east end of Long Island becomes truly magical.

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Sundrie other Gent[lemen] reſt beholden to this hundred, for their dvvellings, vvho, in an enuiable mediocritie of fortune, do happilie poſſeſſe themſelues, and communicate their ſufficient means to the ſeruice of their prince, the good of their neighbours, and the bettering of their ovvn eſtate: […]
1609, Richard Carew, “The Second Booke”, in The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC, folio 117, verso
In the course I have taken, I have met, and do daily meet, so many vexations, that I may with truth assure you, that my situation is anything rather than enviable, though it is my happiness to act with those that are far the best that probably ever were engaged in the public service of this country at any time.
1779 May 25 (date written), Edmund Burke, “Edmund Burke, Esq., to Richard Shackleton”, in Harold J[oseph] Laski, editor, Letters of Edmund Burke: A Selection […] (The World’s Classics; CCXXXVII), London; Edinburgh: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, published 1920, →OCLC, page 224
To superficial observers it might well seem that William [III of England] was, at this time, one of the most enviable of human beings. He was in truth one of the most anxious and unhappy.
1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 3
He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.
1863, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Douglas Jerrold”, in My Miscellanies. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83
This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. To venture there at night was considered so dangerous that the soldiers from the outlying forts who came in to Paris with permission to go to the theatre, were ordered to halt at the barrière, and not to pass through the perilous district excepting in parties of three or four.
1881, Émile Gaboriau, chapter I, in [anonymous], transl., Lecoq, the Detective. […] (Gaboriau’s Sensational Novels; IV), part I (The Search), London: Vizetelly & Co., […], published 1886, →OCLC, page 5

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Origin

adjective

From envy + -able (suffix meaning ‘able or fit to be done’ forming adjectives).

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The athlete had an blank physique that everyone admired.