Emulous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EMULOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• eager to equal or surpass another
• seeking to emulate someone or something.
• motivated by a spirit of rivalry
• desiring or aiming to equal or surpass another
• Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another\'s example or virtues.
• Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
• characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
• eager to surpass others

Words related to EMULOUS

emulously14 emulousness13

Words that contain EMULOUS

emulously14 tremulous11 emulousness13 tremulously16 untremulous13 emulousnesses15 tremulousness15 tremulousnesses17

How to use EMULOUS in a sentence

• My four steeds I harnessed, all white and black-maned, Which straight on their way, fleet and emulous strained.
• It seemed emulous from the beginning to be the first to catch the beams of morning, and, like the statue of Memnon, to respond to the golden touch by sounds of music.
• There had been few Protestant converts, and those few were not apparently emulous of martyrdom.
• Before long he had seen forming, beside Port Royal and in the solitude of the fields, a nucleus of penitents, emulous of the hermits of the desert.
• After that the essay became emulous of men like Stanley and Joe Cook.
• An eager and emulous zeal in the defence of the imperilled liberties and institutions of the nation showed itself all over the land, and in every condition of life.
• If so, I say it is to be expected that these several matters, thanks to emulous ambition, will one and all be vigorously cultivated.
• Chrysaor rising out of the sea, Showed thus glorious and thus emulous, Leaving the arms of Callirrhoe.
• There is some little pecuniary advantage attached to the office of monitor which makes them emulous to obtain it.
• Every mariner now was emulous to be the lookout, every man kept eyes on the west.
• All games owe the zest which they bring with them to the fact that they are rooted in the emulous passion, yet they are the chief means of training in fairness and magnanimity.
• Our Willoughby was then at College, emulous of the generous enthusiasm of his years, and strangely impressed by the report, and the printing of his name in the newspapers.
• When this fact becomes known it is hoped that more young Chinamen than at present may be emulous to be converted.
• So emulous was he of a calm and tranquil courage greater than his own, that at last, perhaps unconsciously, something of that mysterious nature passed into his own soul.
• The unnumbered birds were every one awake, responsive and emulous.
• Whereupon, emulous to please him, bending her will to his, Damaris humbled herself to consumption of a portion of the contents of the chafing-dishes aforesaid.
• Perhaps it was this that made Harry more emulous to get through without making any blunders.
• The death of Simeon in the year 1353, caused a general rush of the princes of the several principalities to the Tartar horde, each emulous of being appointed his successor.
• She studied the lives of the most distinguished men, and was emulous of the renown of those who had been friends and benefactors of the human race.

Similar words containing ULOU without suffix s and without prefix em

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