Emulous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Eager or ambitious to equal or surpass another.
  • adj. Characterized or prompted by a spirit of rivalry.
  • adj. Obsolete Covetous of power or honor; envious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. ambitious or competitive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of.
  • adj. Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Desirous of equaling or excelling, as what one admires; inclined to imitative rivalry: with of before an object: as, emulous of another's example or virtues.
  • Rivaling; competitive.
  • Envious; jealous; contentiously eager.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. eager to surpass others
  • adj. characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
    • Equivalent
    competitive    competitory   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rivaling   
    Same Context
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