Rival

Noun

 * 1) A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) who is well known to another and has similar skills and achievements. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
 * Chris is my biggest rival in the 400m.
 * 1) Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
 * As a social historian, he has no rival.

Derived terms

 * rivalry
 * archrival

Verb

 * 1)  To oppose or compete with.
 * 2) To equal to or surpass another.

Adjectives for Rival
insolent; mutinous; unworthy; formidable ribald; potent; irresistable; disagreeable intolerable; vexatious; insolent; celebrated successful; gallant;  richer;  traditional guiltless; powerful; fallen; testy; scheming hostile; confiding; incredible; favorable importunate; circumstanced; angry; covetous dangerous; strenuous; worthy; patriotic distinguished; hopeless; domestic; rising hated.

Verbs for Rival
appraise—; defy—; emulate—; encounter —; excel—; oust—; outlast—; restrain—; shoulder aside—; surpass—; tolerate—; trail—; —aspires; —bewails; —s clash; — competes; —contends; —disputes; —equals; —excels; —glares; —opposes; —pursues; —s scramble; —spars; —squares off; — strives; —vies.

Thesaurus
admit of comparison, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, amount to, antagonist, antagonistic, antagonize, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, approach, attempt, balance, battle, battler, be commensurable, be comparable, beat against, beat up against, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, break even, breast the wave, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, bully, bullyboy, challenge, challenge comparison, clashing, close with, coequal, combat, combatant, come to, come up to, compare, compare to, compare with, compeer, compete, compete with, competing, competition, competitive, competitor, con, conflicting, contend, contend against, contend with, contender, contest, contestant, contradictory, contrary, cope, correspond, correspond to, corrival, counter, counterpart, cross, cutthroat, disaccordant, disputant, dissentient, ditto, draw, duelist, emulate, emulator, emulous, enemy, enforcer, entrant, equal, equipollent, equivalent, even, even off, fellow, fencer, feuder, fight, fight against, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, fractious, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, grapple with, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, in competition, in rivalry, inimical, jockey, join battle with, jouster, keep pace with, knight, knot, labor against, like, match, match up with, mate, measure up, measure up to, meet, militant, militate against, negative, noncooperative, not compare with, obstinate, offer resistance, opponent, oppose, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, opposition, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, outvie, overthwart, parallel, partake of, peer, perverse, player, plug-ugly, quarreler, reach, recalcitrant, refractory, reluct, reluctate, repugnant, resemble, rioter, rivaling, rough, rowdy, ruffian, run abreast, run to, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, stack up with, stem the tide, strive, strive against, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggle, struggle against, struggle with, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, take on, test one another, the field, thug, tie, tilter, touch, tough, try, tussler, twin, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious, vie, vie with, vier, vying, wrangler

Etymology
From rivalis:, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rivus:.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 敵手, 敌手
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch: tegenstander, rivaal, concurent, vijand
 * Esperanto: rivalo
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, vetélytárs
 * Indonesian: lawan, penentang, musun
 * Italian: rivale, competitore, antagonista, avversario
 * Japanese: ライバル, 敵
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: соперник, противник, конкурент


 * Italian: rivale, pari, avversario


 * Russian: равный

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Hungarian:, verseng
 * Russian: соперничать, конкурировать

Anagrams

 * Avril, viral

Adjective

 * 1)  attributively

Etymology
From, see above

Anagrams

 * avril, livra, viral

Noun

 * 1) adverse, rival

Adjective

 * 1) adverse, rival

Noun

 * 1) rival

Synonyms

 * adversario
 * antagonista
 * competidor
 * contrario
 * oponente

Related terms

 * rivalidad
 * rivalizar