competitive

/kəmˈpɛdədɪv/

/kəmˈpɛtɛtɪv/

If you're competitive, you want to be the best. No one likes to lose, but if you are a competitive person, it will be especially disappointing to see someone else win.

People who are competitive like to compete — to find out who knows the most, runs the fastest, can eat the most hot dogs, and so on. Some people are competitive about everything. You'll know them by their constant comparing themselves to others and trying to find out what others have and do — in order to be sure they are still "ahead." Competitive can describe any contest, like a competitive sandcastle-building event.

Definitions of competitive

1. adjective

   involving competition or competitiveness
   “competitive games”

   “to improve one's competitive position”

   synonyms: competitory

   agonistic, agonistical, combative

   striving to overcome in argument

   emulous, rivalrous

   eager to surpass others

   matched

   provided with a worthy adversary or competitor

   antonyms:

   noncompetitive

   not involving competition or competitiveness

   accommodative, cooperative

   willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

   monopolistic

   having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant

   uncompetitive

   not inclined to compete
2. adjective

   subscribing to capitalistic competition
   synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise

   capitalist, capitalistic

   favoring or practicing capitalism
3. adjective

   showing a fighting disposition
   “highly competitive sales representative”

   synonyms: militant

   aggressive

   having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends