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.
Definitions
- noun. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- noun. 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.
- adjective. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
- transitive verb. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
- transitive verb. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
- intransitive verb. To be in rivalry.
- noun. the contestant you hope to defeat
"he had respect for his rivals"
"he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
- verb. be the rival of, be in competition with
"we are rivaling for first place in the race"
- verb. be equal to in quality or ability
"Nothing can rival cotton for durability"
"Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"
Synonyms
challenger, competition, competitor, contender, equal, match, touch
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rival:
Common word forms
rivals, rivaled, rivaling, rivality, rivalize, rivalled, rivalable, rivalless, rivalling
Words from these letters
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