Synonyms for competitor
kəmˈpɛt ɪ tərcom·peti·tor

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1. competitornoun

   A person or organization against whom one is competing.

   Synonyms:
   adversary, opponent

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1. competitor

   An enemy in private life is one who is moved by hostile feeling with active disposition to injure; but in military language all who fight on the opposite side are called enemies or collectively "the enemy," where no personal animosity may be implied; foe, which is rather a poetical and literary word, implies intensely hostile spirit and purpose. An antagonist is one who opposes and is opposed actively and with intensity of effort; an opponent, one in whom the attitude of resistance is the more prominent; a competitor, one who seeks the same object for which another is striving; antagonists in wrestling, competitors in business, opponents in debate may contend with no personal ill will; rivals in love, ambition, etc., rarely avoid inimical feeling. Adversary was formerly much used in the general sense of antagonist or opponent, but is now less common, and largely restricted to the hostile sense; an adversary is ordinarily one who not only opposes another in fact, but does so with hostile spirit, or perhaps out of pure malignity; as, the great Adversary. Compare synonyms for AMBITION.

   Synonyms:
   adversary, antagonist, enemy, foe, opponent, rival

   Antonyms:
   abettor, accessory, accomplice, ally, friend, helper, supporter

   Preposition:
   He was the enemy of my friend in the contest.

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1. competitor

   Synonyms:
   rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist

   Antonyms:
   participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague

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1. 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"

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

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1. competitornoun

   Synonyms:
   rival, antagonist, opponent, rival candidate

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1. competitornoun

   Synonyms:
   rival, contestant, opponent, antagonist

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1. List of paraphrases for "competitor":

   competitors, rival, competing, contender, concurrent, contestant, competition, challenger, conflicting, opponent

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1. Ron Epstein:

   Their competitor already has something, is it too late [ for Boeing ] already ? It could be. It's hard to say for sure.

2. Dennis Schroder:

   I want to be in a winning mentality organization,” Schroder said. “I just can’t go out there and try to lose. I’m a competitor. I try to give everything out there. I want the organization to feel the same way.”

3. James Mattis:

   We look to engaging with Russia on a political or diplomatic level, but right now, Russia is choosing to be a strategic competitor.

4. The Buccaneers:

   Peyton is my friend, a great quarterback, a great competitor, but there’s gonna always be a lot of talk about that rivalry, whether it’s him joking about we had it bugged or this-gate or that-gate… But Peyton is great. I think his analysis is funny, his wit is awesome. I enjoy listening to him.

5. Lydia Ko:

   I don't think about the rankings or if one birdie is going to put me a couple shots in front of her, i feel very fortunate that there is a great competitor like her where I can work harder and be as good as her or get to that ranking.