The Collaborative International Dictionary
Green-eyed \Green"-eyed\, a.
Having green eyes.
Seeing everything under the influence of emotions which discolor or distort. ``Green-eyed jealousy.''
--Shak.-
Hence: suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: jealous, overjealous.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a person or animal, having green eyes. 2 jealous, envious
WordNet
adj. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover" [syn: jealous, overjealous]
Usage examples of "green-eyed".
Still, as he puttered around his new kitchen, his mind and heart kept straying to the green-eyed, gun-totting Cali Roland.
The third cultist was a green-eyed man called Link, who wanted to know if his father, a soldier, was in heaven.
Her green-eyed gaze left the well-hidden places where outposts of sentries were stationed.
That stupid canaille Harkins had botched up an opportunity to get his hands on the green-eyed temptress.
The other end was held by a green-eyed girl who Carlie realized with a shock was Captain Judith.
The acrobats, on the other hand, claimed to be brothers named Chavana, but though they were all short, compact men, they ranged in coloring from green-eyed Taeric — his high cheekbones and hooked nose proclaiming Saldaean blood — to Barit, who was darker than Juilin and had Sea Folk tattoos on his hands, though he wore no earrings or nose-rings.
Huge of stature, fair-skinned, golden-haired, green-eyed, he hardly differed from or-dinary man save in his beardlessness, webbed feet, easy breathing under water.
The curtain swung aside and the green-eyed, thigh-swinging ash blonde from Geiger's store joined us in the room.
The black and silver green-eyed horse-wolf-thing that had materialized out of the dark one night, and would do what the sword-lady wanted without her saying anything, the stringless blue kite with a person hanging under it, circling over the ruins of Arko—.
And remember that though the Green-Eyed Devil himself will honor his promise and so will his descendents, he is still a mad-dog barbarian, cunning as a filthy Manchu because of our training, and as dangerous always as a nest of vipers.
The words were understandable, relating how guards had been posted, but the green-eyed man's accent was one she had never before heard, a tumble of gutturals and consonants clicked off with surprising abruptness.
You also want to chase down the Probe, rescue your people, single-handedly negotiate a peace treaty with the Romulans or at least with Rihan, and maybe even get a certain green-eyed musician repatriated in Federation space without anyone naysaying you.
Blonde, green-eyed, standing one hundred sixty-five centimeters, with a definitely feminine figure, curved in the right places, even in the workman's coveralls she habitually wore.
Something to wipe away her humiliating rush to The Swamp Shack to save Luc's worthless hide, followed by her humiliating misconception about Luc and what she'd thought was a barroom floozy, not to mention her humiliating jealousyher second bout that day with the green-eyed monster.
At first the Rube laughed with the others, but when Stringer remarked that he had noticed a growing attachment between Nan and Spears, my great pitcher experienced the first pangs of the green-eyed monster.