competitory

1. 1.

   involving competition or competitiveness

   “competitive games”

   “to improve one's competitive position”

   Synonymscompetitive

   Similaragonisticemulousmatched

Questions about competitory

What does competitory mean?

competitory means "involving competition or competitiveness".

How many syllables are in competitory?

competitory has 5 syllables: com-pe-ti-to-ry. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for competitory?

Close synonyms include competitive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is competitory a common word?

competitory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.