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EMULATIVE

Definition: EMULATIVE

EMULATIVE

Adjective

1. Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EMULATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

 

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Crosswords: EMULATIVE

English words defined with "EMULATIVE": Emulatively. (references)

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Modern Translations: EMULATIVE

Language Translations for "EMULATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

garë emulacioni. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

състезателен (agonistic, competitive, racing), подражателен (imitative, mimic). (various references)

   

Czech

  

závodící (emulous). (various references)

   

German

  

eifrig (assiduous, avid, avidly, busily, devotedly, eager, eagerly, enthusiastic, full of zeal, industrious, intently, keen, painstaking, sedulous, studious, studiously, vehement, vigorous, zealous, zealously). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συναγωνιστικόσ (competitive). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

versengésre ösztönzõ. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bersaing. (various references)

   

Italian

  

zelante (ardent, eager, earnest, obliging, zealous). (various references)

   

Manx

  

co-eiyrtagh (emulator). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emulativeay

   

Portuguese

  

rivalidade (antagonism, competition, rivalry). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

imitativ (artful, mimic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

соревновательный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

imitatorski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

emulador (emulator, emulous, rival). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tävlingslysten (emulatory), tävlings- (emulatory), tävlande (competing, competitor, emulatory, runner, tournament player). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

наслідувальний (imitative, mimetic, mimic, slavish), змагальний. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EMULATIVE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EMULATIVE": emulatively. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EMULATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mulative. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EMULATIVE"

Words rhyming with "EMULATIVE" (pronounced 'Em"u*la*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive, Applicative, Appositive, Appreciative, Approbative, Appropriative, Approximative, Arbustive, Architective, Argumentative, Arrogative, Articulative, Asseverative, Assimilative, Associative, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Attestative, Auditive, Authoritative, Benedictive, Calculative, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circulative, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Coadjutive, Coagulative, Coercitive, Cogitative, Cognitive, Cognoscitive, Collative, Colliquative, Commemorative, Commiserative, Commonitive, Communicative, Commutative, Compellative, Competitive, Completive, Complimentative, Compositive, Compulsative, Compunctive, Conative, Concentrative, Conceptive, Concertative, Conciliative, Concretive, Condensative, Confederative, Confirmative, Confutative, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Connotative, Consecutive, Conservative, Considerative, Consignificative, Consolidative, Constitutive, Consultative, Consummative, Contamitive, Continuative, Contortive, Contributive, Convective, Conversative, Cooperative, Coordinative, Cosignificative, Costive, Creative, Criminative, Cucurbitive, Cumulative, Cunctative, Curative, Curvative, Deceptive, Declarative, Decorative, Decretive, Decussative, Defensative, Defunctive, Degenerative, Dehortative, Deletive, Denotative, Denunciative, Deoppilative, Depletive, Deprecative, Depreciative, Depurative, Derogative, Descriptive, Desiccative, Designative, Diffinitive, Diffractive, Disassimilative, Discerptive, Discretive, Discriminative, Dispensative, Dispositive, Disputative, Disquisitive, Disseminative, Dissipative, Dissociative, Dissolvative, Distinctive, Distractive, Dominative, Dormitive, Dubitative, Duplicative, Durative, Educative, Eductive, Edulcorative, Elaborative, Elative, Electro-motive, Eliminative, Elocutive, Elucidative, Emanative, Emotive, Enervative, Ententive, Entitative, Enumerative, Enunciative, Erative, Estimative, Evacuative, Evocative, Exaggerative, Excalfactive, Excerptive, Excitative, Exclamative, Excrementive, Excretive, Exfoliative, Exhortative, Exonerative, Exortive, Expectorative, Expeditive, Experimentative, Explanative, Explicative, Explorative, Expositive, Exquisitive, Exsiccative, Extirpative, Extroitive, Exulcerative, Factitive, Factive, Facultative, Federative, Fermentative, festive, fictive, Finative, fixative, Flative, Forgetive, Fotive, Frequentative, fricative, Frigefactive, Fruitive, frustrative, furtive, generative, Germinative, Glutinative, gravitative, Gubernative, Hastive, Hesitative, Humective, Illuminative, illustrative, imaginative, Imbricative, Impeditive, Imperceptive, Impetrative, implicative, Imputative, inactive, inattentive, Inauthoritative, Incarnative, Incerative, Incitative, Incogitative, incommunicative, incorporative, Incubative, Indagative, Indescriptive, Indictive, Indiscriminative, Indistinctive, Induplicative, Indutive, Infiltrative, Infirmative, Inflammative, informative, Inirritative, Innative, innovative, Innutritive, inoperative, Inscriptive, insensitive, Insignificative, Insinuative, instinctive, Institutive, Insusceptive, Intellective, Intempestive, Intensative, Intensitive, Intentive, Interadditive, Interpenetrative, interpretative, interpretive, Interstinctive, intransitive, Introductive, introspective, intuitive, investigative, Irreceptive, Irrelative, irrespective, Irretentive, irritative, irruptive, iterative, Judicative, Jurisdictive, justificative, Lacerative, laxative, legislative, locative, lucrative, Magnetomotive, manipulative, Manumotive, Mediative, medicative, meditative, Memorative, Ministrative, Miscreative, Misrepresentative, mitigative, Modificative, Monitive, Mordicative, Multiplicative, Mundificative, Native, Nauseative, Nominative, Nonsensitive, Numerative, Nuncupative, Nutritive, Obliterative, Observative, Obstupefactive, Olfactive, Omnispective, Opinative, Opiniative, Opinionative, Oppilative, Oppositive, Ordinative, Originative, Ortive, Oscillative, Ostentive, Overdtive, Palative, Parthenogenitive, Participative, Parturitive, Pedomotive, Pejorative, Pendentive, Penetrative, Pensative, Perceptive, Perforative, Perspirative, Perturbative, Petrifactive, Philoprogenitive, Pignorative, Plaintive, Portative, Postpositive, Potestative, Poultive, Practive, Preceptive, Predestinative, Predicative, Preemptive, Prefigurative, Preformative, Prejudicative, Prepositive, Prerogative, Prescriptive, Presentative, Presumptive, Pretentative, Preteritive, Preventative, Probative, Procreative, Productive, Promotive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EMULATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-t-u-v"

-1 letter: eluviate.

-2 letters: elative, emulate.

-3 letters: amulet, eluate, eluvia, mealie, muleta, telium, ultima, velate.

-4 letters: alive, elate, elemi, elite, elute, email, evite, ileum, leave, lieve, lutea, maile, mauve, mavie, metal, miaul, telae, telia, ulema, utile, uveal, valet, value, vault, velum, vitae, vital.

-5 letters: alee, alit, alme, alum, amie, eave, emeu, emit, etui, evil, ilea, item, lame, late, lati, lave, leet, leva, lieu, lima, lime, lite, litu, live, lute, mail, male, malt, mate, maul, maut, meal, meat, meet, melt, meta, mete, mile, milt, mite, mule, mute, tael, tail, tale, tali, tame, teal, team, teel, teem, tela, tele, tile, time, tule, ulva, uvea, vail, vale, vatu, veal, veil, vela, vial, vile, vita.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-t-u-v"
 

+2 letters: emulatively, misevaluate, vermiculate.

 

+3 letters: misevaluated, misevaluates, multivalence, vermiculated.

 

+4 letters: multivalences, overstimulate.

 

+5 letters: cumulativeness, overstimulated, overstimulates, remuneratively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EMULATIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4D 55 4C 41 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001101 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0055 004C 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

394755463554435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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