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English Dictionary: enviable by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enviable
adj
  1. causing envy; "an enviable position"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enviable \En"vi*a*ble\, a. [From {Envy}.]
      Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire
      to posses or to resemble.
  
               One of most enviable of human beings.      --Macaulay.
      -- {En"vi*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {En"vi*a*bly}, adv.
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