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rivalsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From rival + -some.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characterised or marked by rivalry
   • But perhaps most significantly, Java's Sun ties and VRML's SGI ties affiliated them with two of the Valley's most famously rivalsome rivals. 1997, Robert Reid, Architects of the Web:
   • Strength of numbers against foes, in a more populous and rivalsome world, was an added if not paramount consideration. 1942, John Edward Macy, A Philosophy of the Social Mode, page 13:
   • Opening in the fruit naming division of the Eden Corporation with a professionally rivalsome Adam and Eve, and a curiously jaunty God, Eve finds herself unable to resist the charms of a rare apple, and the pair are cast out of the organisation and ordered to seek a new apple to replace the collectors item which Eve has just scoffed. 2006, Andrew Haydon, Crunch!:

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