One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.
of Compete
One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
An associate; a confederate.
of Contest
Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.
One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.