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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. causing envy;
- Example: "an enviable position"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Enviable \En"vi*a*ble\, a. [From Envy.]
   Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire
   to posses or to resemble.
   [1913 Webster]

         One of most enviable of human beings.    --Macaulay.
   -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

enviable
    adj 1: causing envy; "an enviable position"