green-eyed monster

1. 1.

   a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)

   Synonymsjealousy

   Broaderenvy

Questions about green-eyed monster

What does green-eyed monster mean?

green-eyed monster means "a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)".

What is another word for green-eyed monster?

Close synonyms include jealousy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is green-eyed monster a common word?

green-eyed monster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.