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# enviable

«enviable» in Mova's school dictionary: **so good that other people wish they had it or were in its…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more enviable, most enviable)

### meaning for a pupil

Something enviable is so good that other people wish they had it or were in its place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a thing, a prize or a job that makes others wish they had it

### examples

- Winning the prize was an enviable honour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/#x1)
- She has an enviable collection of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/#x2)
- He is in the enviable position of having two weeks off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/#x3)
- Her life seems enviable to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «enviable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enviable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.