enviable

From Middle French enviable.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnvi.əbl̩/

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enviable (comparative more enviable, superlative most enviable)

1. Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
   • 1863, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Douglas Jerrold”, in My Miscellanies. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83:

     He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.

   • c. 1870, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Laura E. Kendall, Monsieur Lecoq:

     This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation.

• unenviable

• veniable

From envie +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vjabl/

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enviable (plural enviables)

1. enviable

   un sort peu enviable ― an unenviable fate

• “enviable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /emˈbjable/ [ẽmˈbja.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: en‧via‧ble

enviable m or f (masculine and feminine plural enviables)

1. enviable