Synonyms for rival
ˈraɪ vəlri·val

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. rival

   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, competitor, enemy, foe, opponent

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. rivalnoun

   Synonyms:
   antagonist, competitor, cosuitor

   Antonyms:
   adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral

2. rivalverb

   Synonyms:
   emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete

   Antonyms:
   succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contenderverb

   the contestant you hope to defeat

   "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

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

2. equal, touch, rival, matchverb

   be equal to in quality or ability

   "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

   Synonyms:
   adjoin, touch, pit, have-to doe with, play off, pertain, couple, match, concern, fit, stir, tinge, refer, meet, equalize, twin, agree, be, gibe, oppose, tally, equalise, affect, pair, jibe, cope with, equate, relate, touch on, equal, tinct, bear on, allude, bear upon, reach, contact, correspond, come to, advert, impact, partake, extend to, mate, disturb, tint, check

3. rivalverb

   be the rival of, be in competition with

   "we are rivaling for first place in the race"

   Synonyms:
   touch, match, equal

Matched Categories

1. • Compete

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. archenemy

   Submitted by anonymous on May 9, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rivalnoun

   Synonyms:
   competitor, antagonist, opponent, rival candidate

2. rivaladjective

   Synonyms:
   competing, emulating, emulous

3. rivalverb

   Synonyms:
   oppose, compete with, contend with

4. rivalverb

   Synonyms:
   emulate, try to equal or excel

5. rivalverb

   Synonyms:
   match, equal, be equal to

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rivaladjective

   Synonyms:
   competing, competitive, emulative

2. rivalnoun

   Synonyms:
   competitor, emulator, antagonist

3. rivalverb

   Synonyms:
   compete, emulate

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "rival":

   competitor, competing, challenger, opponent, competition, contender, rivals, hostile, conflicting, compete, adversary

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rival

   Synonyms:
   Diazepam, see there
   

How to pronounce rival?

How to say rival in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use rival in a sentence?

1. Francisco Zelada:

   Parents cite a change of home address as a reason why they take their children out of school but this masks a reality that people are leaving their homes because of the insecurity and are going to other parts of the country or the United States, the sons and daughters of gang members who go to school in the area of a rival gang also receive threats and have to leave. The authorities aren't giving this serious problem the attention it deserves.

2. Michael Wong:

   These images rival the view from space.

3. Roger Kay:

   This seems to be a case of Facebook's wanting to slow the momentum of a smaller rival by adopting its core functionality. But you could argue that Snapchat didn't really have much intellectual property in the first place. It was more of a design idea: create a means to send photos with a timer on them.

4. John Kirby:

   In certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner’s command, it’s pretty apparent to us that Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries.

5. David DePape:

   Not only were they spying on a rival campaign, they were submitting fake evidence to spy on a rival campaign, covering it up, persecuting the rival campaign.