rival
n. எதிராள், போட்டியாளர், காதலில் மாற்றார், பரிசுவகையில் உடன் போட்டியாளர், பொது இலக்கு நாடி இகலி நிற்பவர், எதிர்மாற்றுப் பொருள், வோட்டியான் செய்தி, ஒப்பிடுவதற்குரிய பண்பு, (பெயரடை) போட்டியிடுகிற, (வினை) இகலு, எதிர்த்துப் போட்டியிடு, ஒப்பிடத்தக்கவராயிரு, ஒப்பிடத்தக்கவாரு.
Synonyms
#noun antagonist, competitor, cosuitor emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete
Antonyms
#noun adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer
Ri"val, n. Etym: [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two neigbors having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. Rivulet, Rete.] 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak. 2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Note: "Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less unfriendly competition with one another." Trench. Syn. -- Competitor; emulator; antagonist. Ri"val, a. Defn: Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen. Macaulay. Ri"val, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rivaled or Rivalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rivaling or Rivalling.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. 2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. Dryden. Ri"val, v. i. Defn: To be in rivalry. [Obs.] Shak.