green-eyed

[green-ahyd]

adjective

Informal.

1. jealous; envious; distrustful.

green-eyed

adjective

1. jealous or envious

2. jealousy or envy

Word History and Origins

Origin of green-eyed¹

First recorded in 1590–1600 in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596?), green being associated with envy

Example Sentences

In the sequence, the young Viking Hiccup reaches out his hand to touch Toothless, the black, green-eyed dragon he once feared.

From Los Angeles Times

"You are our flower, our baby and our green-eyed child."

From BBC

Jones was a strapping, green-eyed man whose emotive face seemed always at the brink of laughter or fury.

From Los Angeles Times

The green-eyed 20-year-old Queen sat next to the Shah on a divan while he sat in his shirtsleeves telling the story of the flight.

From Seattle Times

His mother, a green-eyed Creole woman raised in a country town just outside of Shreveport, La., moved the family to Compton.

From Los Angeles Times