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Synonyms for competitive
kəmˈpɛt ɪ tɪvcom·pet·i·tive

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  1. competitiveadjective

    of or pertaining to competition

    Antonyms:
    cooperative

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 4 votes

  1. competitive, competitoryadjective

    involving competition or competitiveness

    "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position"

    Synonyms:
    militant, free-enterprise(a), competitory, private-enterprise(a)

    Antonyms:
    accommodative, uncompetitive, noncompetitive, cooperative, socialist, unaggressive, monopolistic, nonaggressive, socialistic

  2. competitive, free-enterprise(a), private-enterprise(a)adjective

    subscribing to capitalistic competition

    Antonyms:
    cooperative, monopolistic, uncompetitive, nonaggressive, socialist, accommodative, noncompetitive, unaggressive, socialistic

  3. competitive, militantadjective

    showing a fighting disposition

    "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"

    Synonyms:
    militant, warlike, private-enterprise(a), hawkish, warring, war-ridden, competitory, free-enterprise(a), belligerent

    Antonyms:
    monopolistic, accommodative, cooperative, nonaggressive, noncompetitive, uncompetitive, unaggressive, socialistic, socialist

Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. competitiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    competing, prompted by emulation

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How to use competitive in a sentence?

  1. Geoff Blaber:

    Simply, carriers must respond by ensuring their installment plans and terms are competitive versus those from Apple Inc and double down on differentiation based on network and tariff.

  2. David Sutton:

    If you actually know him it's not surprising, he had such determination, resilience, ability to focus and work hard, enormous self-belief and huge competitive drive.

  3. Justin Trudeau:

    One of the things we have to remember is China is the second largest economy in the world and continues to grow. We are going to have to – in some circumstances – engage constructively with China like we did around the conference on biodiversity that we hosted with them in Montreal, there’s other places where we’re going to have to be stiff competition to China in terms of market access (and) in terms of investments in the Global South. We need to be able to show that the Western democracies are there to make those investments and they’re as competitive to China.

  4. Tony Clark:

    The issues that the players are interested in engaging on has been the same leading up to bargaining, throughout bargaining and will continue to be the same moving forward, a fair contract that maintains a market system and addresses the competitive integrity issues that we’ve highlighted for some time.

  5. Paul Hackett:

    That very tight margin in a race that should never have been competitive in the first place was a harbinger of 2006, when Democrats got extremely fired up and won a whole lot of previously red seats.


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