Synonyms for competitor
kəmˈpɛt ɪ tərcom·peti·tor

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1. competitornoun

   A person or organization against whom one is competing.

   Synonyms:
   adversary, opponent

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1. competitor

   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, enemy, foe, opponent, rival

   Antonyms:
   abettor, accessory, accomplice, ally, friend, helper, supporter

   Preposition:
   He was the enemy of my friend in the contest.

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1. competitor

   Synonyms:
   rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist

   Antonyms:
   participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contendernoun

   the contestant you hope to defeat

   "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

   Synonyms:
   rival, competition, contender, contention, rivalry, challenger, contest

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1. competitornoun

   Synonyms:
   rival, antagonist, opponent, rival candidate

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1. competitornoun

   Synonyms:
   rival, contestant, opponent, antagonist

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1. List of paraphrases for "competitor":

   competitors, rival, competing, contender, concurrent, contestant, competition, challenger, conflicting, opponent

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1. Bernie Sanders:

   This week marks a victory for patients with LEMS and American taxpayers, and a blow to the greed of Big Pharma, suffering patients used to receive life-saving medication for free from Jacobus Pharmaceuticals -- until a competitor, Catalyst, bought the rights to the drug, received market exclusivity, and started charging $ 375,000 a year to those in desperate need.

2. Emma Raducanu:

   When I was younger, I would take a lot of inspiration from Li Na, even now, just the way Li Na was such a fierce competitor.

3. Stephen Zhu:

   Our competitor is definitely not in great shape.

4. Alastair Gunn:

   He's got a lot of money still invested in WPP and he made it clear that it would be very illogical of him to be out to try and undermine his single largest investment, he said he wasn't going to come back and do something that would be a waterfront-type competitor to WPP.

5. Connor Murphy:

   He's a competitor and he seems to have that poise about him, he's impressive.