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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

invidiosus

, fr.

invidia

envy. See

, and cf.

Envious; malignant.

[Obs.]

Evelyn.

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable.

[Obs.]

Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and

invidious

state than any prosperous man.

Barrow.

Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive;

as,

invidious

distinctions

Adj.

[L. invidiosus, from invideo, to envy; in and video, to see. Invideo signified properly, to look against.]

Envious; malignant.

Likely to incur ill will or hatred, or to provoke envy; hateful. [This is the usual sense.]

Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.