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. Ray Conner:

   To not have that, we're just tying one hand behind our back, as far as I'm concerned, the competition is not going to back away from that kind of financing.

2. Dara Khosrowshahi:

   We've always admired Postmates, I guess, begrudgingly from afar in that it was a competitor who was able to compete aggressively and to be a leader in some very important markets with a much smaller capital base than a lot of its competition, including ourselves.

3. Dwight Morrow:

   The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

4. The Verge:

   This is by far the best camera on a Nexus Imprint phone, ever, and stands up against the best from the competition.

5. Makoto Noji:

   Monetary easing may be effective in prompting buy-back in 'oversold' risk assets but it is not enough to brighten the economic outlook, which market players are concerned about, when China is curtailing excessive investments, monetary stimulus would not boost China's demand much. Rather if it ends up weakening the yuan, it would fuel competition in devaluation. There's no wonder U.S. stocks have lost steam.

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