Antonyms for competition
ˌkɒm pɪˈtɪʃ əncom·pe·ti·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. competitionnoun

   The action of competing.

   The competition for this job is strong.

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. competition

   Aspiration is the desire for excellence, pure and simple. Ambition, literally a going around to solicit votes, has primary reference to the award or approval of others, and is the eager desire of power, fame, or something deemed great and eminent, and viewed as a worthy prize. The prizes of aspiration are virtue, nobility, skill, or other high qualities. The prizes of ambition are advancement, fame, honor, and the like. There is a noble and wise or an ignoble, selfish, and harmful ambition. Emulation is not so much to win any excellence or success for itself as to equal or surpass other persons. There is such a thing as a noble emulation, when those we would equal or surpass are noble, and the means we would use worthy. But, at the highest, emulation is inferior as a motive to aspiration, which seeks the high quality or character for its own sake, not with reference to another. Competition is the striving for something that is sought by another at the same time. Emulation regards the abstract, competition the concrete; rivalry is the same in essential meaning with competition, but differs in the nature of the objects contested for, which, in the case of rivalry, are usually of the nobler sort and less subject to direct gaging, measurement, and rule. We speak of competition in business, emulation in scholarship, rivalry in love, politics, etc.; emulation of excellence, success, achievement; competition for a prize; rivalry between persons or nations. Competition may be friendly, rivalry is commonly hostile. Opposition is becoming a frequent substitute for competition in business language; it implies that the competitor is an opponent and hinderer.

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, contentment, humility, indifference, satisfaction

   Synonyms:
   ambition, aspiration, emulation, opposition, rivalry

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. competition

   Antonyms:
   association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation

   Synonyms:
   rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade

Matched Categories

1. • Business Relation
   • Contestant
   • Group Action
   • Social Event

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. competitionnoun

   a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

   "business competition can be fiendish at times"

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

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

2. contest, competitionnoun

   an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

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

3. competition, contention, rivalrynoun

   the act of competing as for profit or a prize

   "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

   Synonyms:
   rival, contestation, competitor, disceptation, disputation, contender, rivalry, argument, arguing, contention, challenger, contest, tilt, controversy

4. 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"

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. competitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   emulation, rivalry, contention, strife

How to use competition in a sentence?

1. Sebastian Coe:

   We will get the change we want and only then will Russian athletes return to international competition, this is not about politics, this is about the protection of clean athletes. I cannot overstate the feeling around the conference call this evening about sending the strongest possible message that we can.

2. Sipho P Nkosi:

   Strive to win or learn in spite of competition.

3. Van Der Beek:

   Yet another life lesson reinforced for me at 42 on this crazy reality show dance competition, if youre feeling too old to pick up a new skill you always wished you had... f---ing gofor it.

4. Bob Hardy:

   As federal funds have become scarcer and the competition has increased, I think we see a lot of universities expanding their partnerships with industry.

5. Barack Obama:

   Charlie was the first African-American to earn a PGA tour card – often facing indignity and injustice even as he faced the competition, though his best golf was already behind him, he proved that he belonged... blazing a trail for future generations of athletes in America.

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