rivalsome

comparative more rivalsome · superlative most rivalsome

1. rareCharacterised or marked by rivalry

   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

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   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

   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!