competitive

Of or pertaining to competition.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to competition.
    • The final remnants of the competitive spirit between companies will be eliminated, and there is no reasonable prospect that the dull uniformity of standardisation will be offset by greater efficiency in operation. -...
    • Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly...

    Antonyms: cooperative anticompetitive

  2. Inclined to compete.
  3. Capable of competing successfully.
  4. Relating to the inhibition of the effects of a chemical substance by another substance competing with it for binding or bonding.
    • competitive antagonist
  5. Cheap, especially used of quality products.

    Synonyms: economic inexpensive low-cost bargainous brand X budget cheap cheapie cheapo cheesy competitive economical el cheapo low-end low-priced nickel sixpenny tinhorn two a penny unexpensive

Origin

From Latin competītus (past participle of competere) + -ive.

Forms

more competitive most competitive

Derived

anti-competitive competitive advantage competitive authoritarianism competitive eater competitive eating competitive edge competitive exclusion competitively competitive market competitiveness competitive person competitive tendering competitivity hypercompetitive noncompetitive non-competitive overcompetitive precompetitive procompetitive radiocompetitive semicompetitive supercompetitive ultracompetitive uncompetitive