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rivalrous

[ rahy-vuhl-ruhs ]

adjective

  1. characterized by rivalry; competitive:

    the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • °ùŸ±î€ƒv²¹±ô·°ùŽÇ³Ü²õ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·°ùŸ±î€ƒv²¹±ô·°ùŽÇ³Ü²õ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rivalrous1

First recorded in 1805–15; rivalr(y) + -ous
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Constricted pupils and licking lips also tend to accompany such rivalrous encounters.

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The development has been jarring for a nation whose 1.4 billion people usually manage to get along despite belonging to thousands of sometimes rivalrous ethnic groups.

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In 1990, Ms. Gilot, continuing to reflect on him, published “Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art,” an account of the two artists’ rivalrous friendship that focused on the years in which she witnessed it.

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But the broader fact of the matter was that this was a watershed event for women’s basketball, a burgeoning that was far more important than any rivalrous sniping on Twitter.

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They developed a rigidly vertical class-based society living in rivalrous city-states and led by rulers who sought guidance from, and closely identified with, a pantheon of nature-based deities.

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