competitive

adjective

Definition of competitivenext
as in competing
having or marked by a strong desire to win or be better than others I am admittedly competitive when it comes to board games.

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Recent Examples of competitive The reason for the size of the awards, according to Oracle, is the competitive hiring market for veteran cloud and AI leaders. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 Higher rates tend to slow economic activity by making borrowing more expensive and bonds more competitive with stocks for investment dollars. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 As sources involved in newspaper packages note, anything that gives your project a competitive edge is needed in this tough media landscape. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026 The two states were strategically chosen as areas where Trump can multitask, the source said, and boost candidates in nearby competitive races. — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for competitive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for competitive
  1. competing
  2. diligent
  3. hungry
  4. aggressive
  5. motivated
  6. dynamic
Adjective
  • When competing schools want to obtain the services of elite athletes but are blocked by NCAA eligibility limits, as has been the case, that’s a potential antitrust problem.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 June 2026
  • From the non-competing tier, there’s a few teams who absolutely spent in the 2026 draft, no shade here.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Definition of competing
Adjective
  • Edwards said Brown was diligent in going to work and didn’t worry about the weather at all.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Set in the summer of 1970, the story turns on the diligent civil servant Heikki who decides to host a high-ranking Soviet diplomat at his family’s lakeside cottage.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of diligent
Adjective
  • Private investors often tell more diverse stories, take more risks and try to reach an audience that is hungry for content, said Lata Krishnan, a tech investor entering the Hollywood market.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The opening two contests couldn’t have gone much worse for the Hawks, and a hungry Sabres team awaits them in Buffalo on Saturday.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of hungry
Adjective
  • These two phases of work are joined by Serra’s implicit disavowal of abstraction as a form of imagemaking in favor of an object’s aggressive purchase on the real.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Her challenger is Herb Morgan, a Republican from San Diego who promises a more aggressive approach to the job.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of aggressive
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, in both versions of the story, Jeremy is motivated to kill Verity because of the death of his daughter.
    — Glamour, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Natural-language coding tools now let a motivated office manager stand up a working solution in an afternoon.
    — Alan Rencher, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of motivated
Adjective
  • This dynamic exploded in 2021 with Beeple’s $69 million sale to the crypto financier Vignesh Sundaresan, also known as MetaKovan, at Christie’s.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As agents continuously dispatch tasks and process dynamic data streams, the importance of central processing units, or CPUs, is rising rapidly.
    — , CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of dynamic

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“Competitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/competitive. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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