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EMULOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emulous mean?
• EMULOUS (adjective)
The adjective EMULOUS has 2 senses:
1. characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
2. eager to surpass others
Familiarity information: EMULOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
emulation (effort to equal or surpass another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eager to surpass others
Synonyms:
emulous; rivalrous
Similar:
competitive; competitory (involving competition or competitiveness)
Context examples
There was an enjoyment in accepting their simple kindness, and in repaying it by a consideration—a scrupulous regard to their feelings—to which they were not, perhaps, at all times accustomed, and which both charmed and benefited them; because, while it elevated them in their own eyes, it made them emulous to merit the deferential treatment they received.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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