jealous

Preposition: of

attention: If you are jealous of the attention your best friend is paying to someone else, and you're feeling ignored, tell her.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: She was surprised to find herself feeling a little bit jealous.
• make: Know some tricks that would make the pros jealous?

Modifies a noun

• rage: Will's jealousy problems escalate when he gets stoned and in a jealous rage, tries to force himself on Sam at a party.
• boyfriend: The crime was probably committed by a jealous boyfriend or a jealous husband.
• husband: A jealous husband who poured pink paint all over his wife's beloved BMW has escaped jail.
• streak: A possessive and jealous streak could emerge - or be assumed if you're not careful.
• lover: In Act II she plays the part of the suspicious, jealous lover with real venom.
• rival: From jealous rivals, to witch hunters or insane elders; the night is fraught with peril even for the undead.

Modifying Another Word

• insanely: Had I not got an insanely jealous German Shepherd Dog at home, I would have bundled her straight into my car!
• intensely: Jones lived with Mary Gilbert in a house they shared with another man, of whom Jones was intensely jealous.
• extremely: Clive made Des feel extremely jealous by munching his biscuits in his ear all the way home.
• slightly: I had been slightly jealous, I told her.
• deeply: These communities might be highly self-contained and deeply jealous of each other; they might overlap in friendly competition.
• somewhat: I'm also somewhat jealous of the evening you had.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Glad you are enjoying the mud I am feeling jealous.
• become: Dogs can become very jealous with the arrival of a new baby.
• grow: The god of wine grows jealous of his art, He only fires the head, but Hyde the heart.
• seem: Matt seems jealous that Geoff had been talking to Pixie in the rec room.