uncompetitively
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- adverb
- /ˌʌn.kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɪv.li/
- Her efforts to promote the service were uncompetitively weak compared to the competition.
Examples
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Due to the high production costs, their goods were sold uncompetitively in the market.
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While the expensive yen might threaten to price Japanese products off world markets by making them uncompetitively expensive, it remains only a threat.
Academic text (1996) -
The company priced its products uncompetitively, losing customers to its rivals.
Synonyms
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Without trying to beat others
Antonyms
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
uncompetitively = uncompetitive (transparent) = un + compete + ive + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'uncompetitive', so the step is straightforward.
Etymology
The word uncompetitively starts with un- meaning 'not', has competitive (from the common verb compete, meaning 'to try to win'), and ends with -ly to make an adverb. So, uncompetitively means 'in a way that is not trying to win' or 'without competition', like someone in a race who does not try to win.