- rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
--1 is a kind of contestant
--1 has particulars:champion, champ, title-holder; comer; finalist; foe, enemy; front-runner, favorite, favourite; king, queen, world-beater; runner-up, second best; semifinalist; street fighter; tier; tilter Derived form: verb rival2
- equal, touch, rival, match - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
--1 is one way to compete, vie, contend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- rival - be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
--2 is one way to compete, vie, contend
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun rival1, noun rivalry1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something