Dictionary Entry
rival
rival is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- 2noun
One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
- 3adjective
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
- 4transitive verb
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
- 5transitive verb
To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
- 6intransitive verb
To be in rivalry.
- 7noun
the contestant you hope to defeat
"he had respect for his rivals"
"he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
- 8verb
be the rival of, be in competition with
"we are rivaling for first place in the race"
- 9verb
be equal to in quality or ability
"Nothing can rival cotton for durability"
"Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"
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