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# jealously

«jealously» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a jealous way: feeling upset that someone has what you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (jealously)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Jealously means in a jealous way: feeling upset that someone has what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#m1)

2) Jealously can also mean very carefully, protecting something: a jealously guarded secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Stories about feelings and friendship, family (a sibling looking jealously at a new toy), Bible stories (Cain and Joseph's brothers).

### examples

- He looked jealously at his brother's new bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x1)
- The dragon jealously guarded its gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x2)
- The recipe is a jealously guarded secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x3)
- Joseph's brothers watched him jealously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x4)
- She stared jealously at the trophy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x5)
- The cat jealously watched the new puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealously/#x6)

### note

Adjective: jealous; noun: jealousy. Jealous is often mixed up with envious; envy is wanting what someone else has.

### Trees and pragmatics

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