Word Meanings - EMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMULATE)

• Compete
• Contend
• rival
• cope
• emulate
• Rival
• Emulate
• challenge
• equal
• contend
• strive
• compete
• Vie
• Strive
• contest

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMULATE)

• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede

Related words: (words related to EMULATE)

• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• STRIVE
  1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• CHALLENGE
  The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. (more info) chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance;
• GRANT
  yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• EMULATE
  Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.
• STRIVEN
  p. p. of Strive.
• CONTENDER
  One who contends; a contestant.
• STRIVED
  Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.
• ALLOWABLENESS
  The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.
• COMPETENT
  in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to 1. Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton.
• CONTESTANT
  One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
• ALLOWABLE
  1. Praiseworthy; laudable. Hacket. 2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• TALLOWY
  Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• UNHALLOWED
  Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.