英语词汇“emulous”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Use the adjective emulous to describe someone who tries to imitate or copy another person. An emulous student might both admire and feel jealous of the teacher he imitates.

When you're emulous of a friend, you feel a bit competitive, wanting to do what she does, and to do it better. Younger siblings are sometimes emulous of older brothers or sisters, and art school students might be emulous of established, working artists. When you want to be just like someone, you're emulous, and when you want to surpass that person, you're also emulous. The Latin root is aemulari, "to rival."

TASTY MORSELS

Sibling Strife? A Word You Don't Know Might Explain Why

Here at Vocabulary.com, we are constantly on the lookout for funky and impressively obscure words deserving of a comeback. Case in point: emulous.

Emulous is a fantastic word that gives us the ability to describe a feeling that dogs many of us all through life and yet is very hard to pinpoint.

Here's what our Dictionary has to say:

In other words, emulous describes that I-hate-you-because-I-want-to-be-you relationship so many of us have with our siblings or close friends. The feeling is so universal, you'd think you'd come across emulous everywhere.

You won't. Just check out the way that Daily Mail writer Judith Woods, in a piece on adult sibling rivalry, went to town with A+ words, including corrosive, stagnant, secretive, insidious, and even Schadenfreude, but didn't trot out emulous even the one time:

It’s bad enough being second best to your schoolmate at sports as a 13-year-old; how much worse to feel completely eclipsed as a 33-year-old by your brother’s high-flying career or your sister’s perfect partner? And no matter how much we love our brother or sister deep down, when sibling envy takes hold, it has a corrosive effect on our ability to express affection. Overt rivalry in childhood is upfront, dynamic and character-building, a necessary rite of passage that enables each child to find their niche within the family. But sibling envy in adulthood is a stagnant, secretive emotion that finds its insidious expression in anger and Schadenfreude.

Maybe Woods isn't using emulous because if she did, her readers wouldn't know what she meant. Or maybe emulous didn't occur to Woods because she hasn't come across it in her own reading. Both scenarios are likely — in spite of its usefulness, emulous is teetering on the edge of extinction. Our Dictionary tells us we can expect an emulous sighting only once in every 14,397 pages of text we read.

Compare that to similar-sounding emulate, which appears every 1,143 pages, envious, which appears once every 1,133, and tremulous, which beats both at 843.

Then look at Google Ngram Viewer's picture of how these words' popularity, or lack thereof, has changed over time, with emulate outstripping both envious and tremulous over the last century and a half, even as emulous has fallen increasingly behind.

What's going on? Wouldn't a person gripped by envy of a brother or sister, whom they also love deeply, derive some comfort in knowing that this feeling is common enough we have a word for it? Isn't that what words essentially are for — to help us create a common culture by agreeing on a system of names for things that are? Or at the very least, couldn't this word trim a few dollars off our therapy bills?

So let's bring emulous back into circulation. Start by clicking the "learn" button on the emulous page in our Dictionary to add it to your personal word learning program on Vocabulary.com. Then drop it into casual conversation everywhere you go.

If your vocabulary bling makes your siblings feel emulous at the next family barbecue, maybe they can go hunting for some impressively obscure vocabulary of their own. (In this vein, we recommend Wayne State Word Warriors' list Words that Deserve Wider Use.)

WORD FAMILY

emulous: emulously

USAGE EXAMPLES

An emulous industry was never more apparent than in this beautiful assembly.

Various, The Portland Sketch Book(2012)

Every young divinity-student, especially, seems emulous of this troublesome appendage.

Lunettes, Henry, The American Gentleman's Guide to P...(2012)

This treat gives fresh animation to the emulous tongues.

Bates, Katharine Lee, Spanish Highways and Byways(2012)

1adj characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation

2adj eager to surpass others

Syn

rivalrous
competitive, competitory

involving competition or competitiveness

单词	emulous
释义	emulous (once / 14397 pages) adj Use the adjective emulous to describe someone who tries to imitate or copy another person. An emulous student might both admire and feel jealous of the teacher he imitates. When you're emulous of a friend, you feel a bit competitive, wanting to do what she does, and to do it better. Younger siblings are sometimes emulous of older brothers or sisters, and art school students might be emulous of established, working artists. When you want to be just like someone, you're emulous, and when you want to surpass that person, you're also emulous. The Latin root is aemulari, "to rival." TASTY MORSELS Sibling Strife? A Word You Don't Know Might Explain Why Here at Vocabulary.com, we are constantly on the lookout for funky and impressively obscure words deserving of a comeback. Case in point: emulous. Emulous is a fantastic word that gives us the ability to describe a feeling that dogs many of us all through life and yet is very hard to pinpoint. Here's what our Dictionary has to say: In other words, emulous describes that I-hate-you-because-I-want-to-be-you relationship so many of us have with our siblings or close friends. The feeling is so universal, you'd think you'd come across emulous everywhere. You won't. Just check out the way that Daily Mail writer Judith Woods, in a piece on adult sibling rivalry, went to town with A+ words, including corrosive, stagnant, secretive, insidious, and even Schadenfreude, but didn't trot out emulous even the one time: It’s bad enough being second best to your schoolmate at sports as a 13-year-old; how much worse to feel completely eclipsed as a 33-year-old by your brother’s high-flying career or your sister’s perfect partner? And no matter how much we love our brother or sister deep down, when sibling envy takes hold, it has a corrosive effect on our ability to express affection. Overt rivalry in childhood is upfront, dynamic and character-building, a necessary rite of passage that enables each child to find their niche within the family. But sibling envy in adulthood is a stagnant, secretive emotion that finds its insidious expression in anger and Schadenfreude. Maybe Woods isn't using emulous because if she did, her readers wouldn't know what she meant. Or maybe emulous didn't occur to Woods because she hasn't come across it in her own reading. Both scenarios are likely — in spite of its usefulness, emulous is teetering on the edge of extinction. Our Dictionary tells us we can expect an emulous sighting only once in every 14,397 pages of text we read. Compare that to similar-sounding emulate, which appears every 1,143 pages, envious, which appears once every 1,133, and tremulous, which beats both at 843. Then look at Google Ngram Viewer's picture of how these words' popularity, or lack thereof, has changed over time, with emulate outstripping both envious and tremulous over the last century and a half, even as emulous has fallen increasingly behind. What's going on? Wouldn't a person gripped by envy of a brother or sister, whom they also love deeply, derive some comfort in knowing that this feeling is common enough we have a word for it? Isn't that what words essentially are for — to help us create a common culture by agreeing on a system of names for things that are? Or at the very least, couldn't this word trim a few dollars off our therapy bills? So let's bring emulous back into circulation. Start by clicking the "learn" button on the emulous page in our Dictionary to add it to your personal word learning program on Vocabulary.com. Then drop it into casual conversation everywhere you go. If your vocabulary bling makes your siblings feel emulous at the next family barbecue, maybe they can go hunting for some impressively obscure vocabulary of their own. (In this vein, we recommend Wayne State Word Warriors' list Words that Deserve Wider Use.) WORD FAMILY emulous: emulously USAGE EXAMPLES An emulous industry was never more apparent than in this beautiful assembly. Various, The Portland Sketch Book(2012) Every young divinity-student, especially, seems emulous of this troublesome appendage. Lunettes, Henry, The American Gentleman's Guide to P...(2012) This treat gives fresh animation to the emulous tongues. Bates, Katharine Lee, Spanish Highways and Byways(2012) 1adj characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation 2adj eager to surpass others Syn rivalrous competitive, competitory involving competition or competitiveness
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