NONCOMPETITIVE Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

noncompetitive

adjective

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as in uncompetitive

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Recent Examples of noncompetitive But Boston’s lineup has looked largely noncompetitive over the season’s first month, exacerbating concerns that the Red Sox wouldn’t hit enough after a less-than-ideal offseason. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026 Tyrese Maxey didn’t expect Game 1 of his team’s first-round playoff series to be that noncompetitive. — Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 In a move that surprised many, the Labor Department, through a noncompetitive process, put the state of Arkansas in charge of administering the nationwide fund. — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026 For longer distances – more than three hours – the train’s travel time starts to get noncompetitive with air. — Stephen Mattingly, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noncompetitive

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Van Aert’s victory extends his lead over Brennan to 65 points in the uncompetitive green jersey contest, with his only realistic rival, Lidl-Trek’s Mads Pedersen, withdrawing from the race earlier this week.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The company returned to top-level endurance racing in 1982 with the C100 during the early days of the Group C regulations, but the car was uncompetitive and unreliable, and the program soon ended.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncompetitive

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Through quests, combat, exploration and cooperative adventures, players can forge their own paths through the medieval fantasy world of Gielinor.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Other leaders seem resigned to the fact that this 80-year global experiment in cooperative international relations has ceded the floor once again to the world order of coercion that dictated most of human history.

— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Since then, different techniques have been developed to recruit the symbiotic microbe.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026
Thus, the relationship between gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (itself the subject of George Eells’s 1971 dual biography, Hedda and Louella) was at first a symbiotic friendship and then a brutal rivalry.

— Lindsey Weber, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026

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