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adjective

Green-eyed adj.

Having green eyes.

Seeing everything under the influence of emotions which discolor or distort. "Green-eyed jealousy."

Hence: Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival.

Synonyms: jealous, overjealous.

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Etymology of 'Green-eyed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Green-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... face as an artist. Perhaps he is. But it strikes me that he has lost the critical and judicial expression which I have noticed hitherto," and a glimmer of a smile that did not in the least suggest the "green-eyed monster" hovered for a moment like a ray of light over ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

... her friend, the little green-eyed monster gained possession of her momentarily. "He may be deceiving thee," she suggested. ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... the blacks hesitated; then, at the urging of Rokoff and their chief, they leaped in to finish the dance and the victim; but ere ever another spear touched the brown hide a tawny streak of green-eyed hate and ferocity bounded from the door of the hut in which Tarzan had been imprisoned, and Sheeta, the panther, stood snarling beside ...

— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

Words linked to "Green-eyed" : overjealous, green-eyed monster, distrustful, jealous