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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
