ENVIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enviable mean? 

• ENVIABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ENVIABLE has 1 sense:

1. causing envy

  Familiarity information: ENVIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing envy

Context example:

an enviable position

Similar:

desirable (worth having or seeking or achieving)

 Context examples 

You also have Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn, and soon, from February 16 to March 30, Mars will join this group and give you special presence and enviable control over events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But, indeed, I am in a most enviable state.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You are in an enviable position, dear Virgo, so you are going to be given a rare chance to go for your dreams with a fine expectation of achieving them.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Over the little mantelshelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, built at Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a work of art, combining composition with carpentry, which I considered to be one of the most enviable possessions that the world could afford.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will increasingly find yourself in the right place at the right time to scoop up enviable opportunities that take advantage of your unique talents.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This is the first time in 12 years you’ve had this generous planet—Jupiter—in this part of your chart, and you will reap many enviable benefits from Jupiter’s position.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lucky you, Mars, the energy planet, will be in Sagittarius until February 16, so Mars will give you enviable control over events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Now that Mars is in Libra, your tenth house of fame and honors, you have an enviable competitive edge.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)