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competitive

Definition for competitive

adjective as in willing to oppose

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Example Sentences

In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.

Boys are taught early in life to devalue care, to be hyper-competitive, super-achieving men.

“These towns that are doing it just continue to make New Jersey less and less competitive,” Christie said.

The follow-up story is how those who survived both the competitive onslaught, as well as the recession, have adapted.

Yazbek says the demand for safe crossing has made the smugglers very competitive.

This is simpler than having to cram and then stand the racket of a competitive examination.

Those were the days when competitive traffic, gained almost at any cost, was sweet as stolen kisses are said to be.

The design for the cathedral was a competitive one selected from many submitted by the greatest architects in the world.

Few find anything promising or attractive in the competitive examination.

Nicky's admirable judgment told him that as a competitive poet he was dished by Prothero.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to competitive, such as: aggressive, ambitious, competing, cutthroat, vying, and antagonistic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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