What does emulous mean?
Emulous means Ambitious or competitive..
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/ˈɛm.jʊ.ləs/ · adjective
Ambitious or competitive..
His armes and other moꝛe ſinewous than fleſhie, a ſtout and a valiant gentleman he was and emulous.
[I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely, it is a true Saying, that where there is a Will, there is a Way.
In such near proximity with the invalid, though all had been emulous of showing him attention, perhaps none were more truly affected by the critical situation of the unhappy Douglas than Miss Airey.
A dozen emulous young persons in, or just out of, pinafores, swift-runners, had taken the field.
They had been always of course, the Papers, very largely about him, but it was not too much to say that at this crisis they were about nothing else worth speaking of; so that our young woman could but groan in spirit at the direful example set to the emulous.
Use emulous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Emulous means Ambitious or competitive..
Common synonyms include competitive, competitory, rivalrous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His armes and other moꝛe ſinewous than fleſhie, a ſtout and a valiant gentleman he was and emulous.
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