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COMPETITIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does competitive mean?
• COMPETITIVE (adjective)
The adjective COMPETITIVE has 3 senses:
1. involving competition or competitiveness
2. subscribing to capitalistic competition
3. showing a fighting disposition
Familiarity information: COMPETITIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving competition or competitiveness
Synonyms:
competitive; competitory
Context example:
to improve one's competitive position
Similar:
agonistic; agonistical; combative (striving to overcome in argument)
emulous; rivalrous (eager to surpass others)
matched (provided with a worthy adversary or competitor)
Antonym:
noncompetitive (not involving competition or competitiveness)
Derivation:
compete (compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others)
competitiveness (an aggressive willingness to compete)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Subscribing to capitalistic competition
Synonyms:
competitive; free-enterprise; private-enterprise
Similar:
capitalist; capitalistic (favoring or practicing capitalism)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Showing a fighting disposition
Synonyms:
competitive; militant
Context example:
his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy
Similar:
aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)
Derivation:
competitiveness (an aggressive willingness to compete)
Context examples
A sulfonamide-derived, competitive and specific endothelin receptor antagonist with a slightly higher affinity for the endothelin A receptor than endothelin B receptor.
(Bosentan, NCI Thesaurus)
Boswellic acids have anti-inflammatory properties inhibiting leukotriene biosynthesis via non-competitive inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase.
(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)
Competitive dimerization between family members is thought to regulate their function as regulators of apoptosis.
(Bcl-2 Homology Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic piperidinyl-benzimidazol derivative with antiallergic properties, Astemizole acts as a reversible competitive inhibitor of histamine H1 receptors, with less anticholinergic effects compared to related agents.
(Astemizole, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent is also a competitive inhibitor of adenosine triphosphate activity.
(Alvocidib, NCI Thesaurus)
Diclofenac potassium is a non-selective reversible and competitive inhibitor of cyclooxygenase (COX), subsequently blocking the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandin precursors.
(Diclofenac Potassium, NCI Thesaurus)
A second generation ATP-competitive anthrapyrazolone c-Jun N terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity.
(CC-401, NCI Thesaurus)
Cisatracurium besylate acts as a competitive acetylcholine antagonist that binds to nicotinic receptors at the neuromuscular junction.
(Cisatracurium Besylate, NCI Thesaurus)
Cystatins are intracellular or extracellular, tight, reversible, competitive inhibitors of lysosomal cysteine proteinases, such as Cathepsins B, L, H, and S, that appear to provide a protective function.
(Cystatin Superfamily Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Diclofenac sodium is a non-selective reversible and competitive inhibitor of cyclooxygenase (COX), subsequently blocking the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandin precursors.
(Diclofenac sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
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