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Synonyms for Rival
ˈraɪ vəlri·val
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
rival
An enemy in private life is one who is moved by hostile feeling with active disposition to injure; but in military language all who fight on the opposite side are called enemies or collectively "the enemy," where no personal animosity may be implied; foe, which is rather a poetical and literary word, implies intensely hostile spirit and purpose. An antagonist is one who opposes and is opposed actively and with intensity of effort; an opponent, one in whom the attitude of resistance is the more prominent; a competitor, one who seeks the same object for which another is striving; antagonists in wrestling, competitors in business, opponents in debate may contend with no personal ill will; rivals in love, ambition, etc., rarely avoid inimical feeling. Adversary was formerly much used in the general sense of antagonist or opponent, but is now less common, and largely restricted to the hostile sense; an adversary is ordinarily one who not only opposes another in fact, but does so with hostile spirit, or perhaps out of pure malignity; as, the great Adversary. Compare synonyms for AMBITION.
Synonyms:
adversary, antagonist, competitor, enemy, foe, opponentAntonyms:
abettor, accessory, accomplice, ally, friend, helper, supporterPreposition:
He was the enemy of my friend in the contest.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contenderverb
the contestant you hope to defeat
"he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
Synonyms:
rival, competition, competitor, contender, contention, rivalry, challenger, contestequal, touch, rival, matchverb
be equal to in quality or ability
"Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
Synonyms:
adjoin, touch, pit, have-to doe with, rival, play off, pertain, couple, match, concern, fit, stir, tinge, refer, meet, equalize, twin, agree, be, gibe, oppose, tally, equalise, affect, pair, jibe, cope with, equate, relate, touch on, equal, tinct, bear on, allude, bear upon, reach, contact, correspond, come to, advert, impact, partake, extend to, mate, disturb, tint, checkrivalverb
be the rival of, be in competition with
"we are rivaling for first place in the race"
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
rivalnoun
Synonyms:
competitor, antagonist, opponent, rival candidaterivaladjective
rivalverb
Synonyms:
oppose, compete with, contend withrivalverb
Synonyms:
emulate, try to equal or excelrivalverb
Synonyms:
match, equal, be equal to
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
rivaladjective
Synonyms:
competing, competitive, emulativerivalnoun
Synonyms:
competitor, emulator, antagonistrivalverb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "rival":
competitor, competing, challenger, opponent, competition, contender, rivals, hostile, conflicting, compete, adversary
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
Rival
Synonyms:
Diazepam, see there
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#69 | contact | |
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#859 | meet | |
#1336 | impact | |
#1536 | match | |
#1734 | agree | |
#1883 | couple | |
#1931 | fit | |
#2078 | competition | |
#2185 | challenge | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2309 | equal | |
#2884 | refer | |
#2978 | pair | |
#3115 | concern | |
#3140 | affect | |
#3575 | contest | |
#3663 | twin | |
#4784 | enemy | |
#6294 | mate | |
#6554 | compete | |
#6843 | relate | |
#6977 | pit | |
#8346 | competing | |
#9071 | opponent | |
#9541 | advert | |
#10284 | stir | |
#11080 | rival | |
#11336 | strive | |
#11919 | correspond | |
#12170 | hostile | |
#12242 | oppose | |
#12862 | competitor | |
#14728 | rivals | |
#15258 | conflicting | |
#15577 | challenger | |
#17032 | contention | |
#18615 | tally | |
#20325 | contend | |
#20381 | foe | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#23458 | rivalry | |
#24833 | adversary | |
#25149 | contender | |
#25431 | tint | |
#25599 | emulate | |
#27042 | pertain | |
#27459 | antagonist | |
#32467 | equate | |
#38277 | partake | |
#61118 | equalize | |
#62776 | tinge | |
#75845 | allude | |
#85364 | jibe | |
#120495 | adjoin | |
#157471 | equalise | |
#170879 | tinct | |
#213898 | gibe |
How to use Rival in a sentence?
Before making any judgments, I want to know the facts of what occurred between the President and Ukraine, i share Sen. (Mitt) Romney's view that If the President used his position to pressure a foreign power to dig up dirt on a rival for his own personal gain, it would be deeply troubling. I believe it would be a betrayal of the loyalty owed to our country and the Constitution.
This incident shows the problem with the corporate culture in South Korean conglomerates, the mentality of these companies is not 'We're number one' but 'We must take down rival X'.
Parents cite a change of home address as a reason why they take their children out of school but this masks a reality that people are leaving their homes because of the insecurity and are going to other parts of the country or the United States, the sons and daughters of gang members who go to school in the area of a rival gang also receive threats and have to leave. The authorities aren't giving this serious problem the attention it deserves.
He sees Bush as his main rival, even if the polls may not reflect that right now.
Superintendent Garry McCarthy:
That gang just signed its own death warrant, we're going to go in and destroy that gang and, by the way, the rival gang, too.
Translations for Rival
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- منافسArabic
- съперница, противник, противница, съперникBulgarian
- rivalCatalan, Valencian
- sok, rival, soupeřCzech
- Rivale, Konkurrent, GegnerGerman
- αντίπαλος, ανταγωνιστής, ανταγωνίζομαι, παραβγαίνωGreek
- rivaloEsperanto
- rivalSpanish
- رقیبPersian
- kilpailija, kilpaillaFinnish
- rivaliser, rivalFrench
- vetélytárs, rivális, rivalizál, versengHungarian
- musun, penentang, lawanIndonesian
- rivale, competitore, competere, pari, rivaleggiare, avversario, antagonistaItalian
- ライバル, 敵Japanese
- რაყიფი, მეტოქეGeorgian
- aemulumLatin
- taumāhekehekeMāori
- tegenstander, vijand, rivaal, concurentDutch
- rival, competidor, adversárioPortuguese
- rivalRomanian
- конкурировать, конкурент, соперничать, противница, соперница, соперник, противник, конкурентка, равныйRussian
- eş, denk, emsal, benzer, rakipTurkish
- 对手Chinese
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