Envious and enviable. Similar sounding opposites.

Check similar sounding and confusing words which are opposites.

A play was written about a woman called Mrs Malaprop who kept making mistakes. Word confusions are therefore sometimes known as Malapropisms. Mal means bad.

Enviable means something you would be able to envy, something able to be envied, because it is good.

Envious - a negative word, describes somebody who envies others.