enviable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite causing envy
    • an enviable position

WordNet

En"vi*a*ble adjective
Etymology
From Envy.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913