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competitive
[kuhm-pet-i-tiv]
adjective
of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition.
competitive sports; a competitive examination.
well suited for competition; having a feature that makes for successful competition.
a competitive price.
having a strong desire to compete or to succeed.
useful to a competitor; giving a competitor an advantage.
He was careful not to divulge competitive information about his invention.
competitive
/ əˈɛɪɪ /
adjective
involving or determined by rivalry
competitive sports
sufficiently low in price or high in quality to be successful against commercial rivals
relating to or characterized by an urge to compete
a competitive personality
Other Word Forms
- competitively adverb
- competitiveness noun
- anticompetitive adjective
- anticompetitively adverb
- anticompetitiveness noun
- noncompetitive adjective
- noncompetitively adverb
- noncompetitiveness noun
- overcompetitive adjective
- overcompetitively adverb
- overcompetitiveness noun
- pseudocompetitive adjective
- pseudocompetitively adverb
- quasi-competitive adjective
- quasi-competitively adverb
- supercompetitive adjective
- uncompetitive adjective
- uncompetitively adverb
- uncompetitiveness noun
- dzˈپپԱ noun
- dzˈپپ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of competitive1
Example Sentences
I'm just back from Mongolia, a competitive democracy in between Russia on one hand and China on the other.
“The football calendar is objectively saturated and there is a general lack of balance that affects everyone involved,” said Giuseppe Marotta, chairman and CEO of Inter Milan, which played 59 competitive matches since September.
Since then, Frank has established the Bees as a competitive Premier League club, recording 13th, ninth, 16th and 10th-place finishes.
“That's the tradeoff. You can do that too much so that you actually make them so competitive that the other side wins,” Crayton said.
She had been due to return on Sunday in Sweden for her first competitive outing of 2025.
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When To Use
Competitive is most commonly used to describe a person who has a strong desire to compete and win.Competitive is commonly associated with sports, but it is used in many different contexts that involve competition. It is commonly used to describe someone or something that is able to succeed against or stay even with others in the same contest or setting, as in Our new product will help us stay competitive in this market.Example: Most pro athletes are competitive by nature and always want to win no matter what they’re playing—even if it’s something as simple as a game of cards.
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