Synonyms of eating one's heart out

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as in jealous

having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages

She's been eating her heart out since her friends have started buying their own houses.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jealous
• green with envy
• greedy
• resentful
• invidious
• envious
• covetous
• suspicious
• jaundiced
• malicious
• green-eyed
• petty
• grudging
• avaricious
• spiteful
• rapacious
• distrustful
• begrudging
• grasping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• kind
• generous
• charitable
• benevolent
• kindhearted
• unenvious
• altruistic
• well-meaning

eating one's heart out

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phrase (2)

present participle of eat one's heart out

as in grieving

to feel deep sadness or mental pain

He was admiring my new car, but I told him to eat his heart out because I'd never let him drive it.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grieving
• aching
• mourning
• sighing
• tearing one's hair
• longing (for)
• suffering
• crying
• agonizing
• sorrowing
• pining (away)
• bleeding
• sobbing
• hurting
• anguishing
• weeping
• taking on
• groaning
• smarting
• tormenting
• moaning
• torturing
• racking
• ruing
• bewailing
• howling
• lamenting
• blubbering
• languishing
• yammering
• deploring
• bawling
• bemoaning
• regretting
• wailing
• yowling
• keening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• cheering
• rejoicing
• ravishing
• beaming
• triumphing
• exulting
• crowing
• delighting
• comforting
• reassuring
• consoling
• assuring
• soothing
• glorying
• joying
• sympathizing
• commiserating
• solacing