Word Meanings - RIVAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak. 2. One who is in

Additional info about word: RIVAL

having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak. 2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Note: "Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less unfriendly competition with one another." Trench. Syn. -- Competitor; emulator; antagonist.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RIVAL)

• Adversary
• Antagonist
• foe
• enemy
• rival
• assailant
• opponent
• competitor
• Belligerent
• Contending
• engaging
• fighting
• opposed
• adverse
• conflicting
• antagonist
• hostile
• Compete
• Contend
• cope
• emulate
• Competitor
• Rival
• emulator
• adversary

Related words: (words related to RIVAL)

• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• ANTAGONIST
  A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. (more info) 1. One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• EMULATORY
  Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry. "Emulatory officiousness." Bp. Hall.
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• HOSTILELY
  In a hostile manner.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• ASSAILANT
  Assailing; attacking. Milton.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• ANTAGONISTIC; ANTAGONISTICAL
  Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.
• EMULATOR
  One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass. As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both. Bp. Warburton.
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• EMULATE
  Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• CORRIVAL
  A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. Shak.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
• NOLO CONTENDERE
  A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.