emulative

emulative
See emulate.

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  • Emulative — Em u*la*tive, a. Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort. Emulative zeal. Hoole. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • emulative — index competitive (antagonistic) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • emulative — emulate ► VERB ▪ try to equal or surpass, typically by imitation. DERIVATIVES emulation noun emulative adjective emulator noun. ORIGIN Latin aemulari to rival or equal …   English terms dictionary

  • emulative — adjective see emulation …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • emulative — adjective Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative …   Wiktionary

  • emulative — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Copying another in an inferior or obsequious way: apish, imitative, slavish. See SAME …   English dictionary for students

  • emulative — adj. imitative, tending to copy …   English contemporary dictionary

  • emulative — em·u·la·tive …   English syllables

  • emulative — …   Useful english dictionary

  • emulate — emulative, adj. emulatively, adv. emulator, n. v. /em yeuh layt /; adj. /em yeuh lit/, v., emulated, emulating, adj. v.t. 1. to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one s father as a concert violinist. 2. to… …   Universalium

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