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ambitious
Full of or showing ambition
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  1. Full of or showing ambition
  2. Demanding great effort, skill, enterprise, etc.
  3. Requiring or showing much effort; challenging:
aspiring
Hoping to become
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  1. Hoping to become
  2. Striving for or desirous of reaching some (usually lofty) goal
competitive
Likely to succeed in competition
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  1. Likely to succeed in competition
  2. (Euphemistically, of prices) cheap, especially used of quality products
  3. Liking competition or inclined to compete:
Find another word for emulous. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for emulous, like: ambitious, aspiring, competitive, desire and conflict.

Sentence Examples

  • Thomas Cavendish, emulous of Drake's example, fitted out three vessels for an expedition to the South sea in 1586.

  • His fame collected round him a host of followers, emulous of his sanctity.

  • Never before, since the age of Margaret, had Denmark been so well governed, never before had she possessed so many political celebrities nobly emulous for the common good.

  • The Bombay government was naturally emulous to follow the example of Madras and Bengal, and to establish its influence at the court of Poona by placing its own nominee upon the throne.

  • Of these the most conspicuous was offered by the opposite inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn, which the emulous efforts of L.

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