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Definition of Ambitionless

1. Adjective. Having little desire for success or achievement.

Definition of Ambitionless

1. a. Devoid of ambition.

Definition of Ambitionless

1. Adjective. Without ambition or motivation ¹

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Definition of Ambitionless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambitionless

Literary usage of Ambitionless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economy of Happiness by James MacKaye (1906)
"Many earnest persons believe that the cessation of individual ownership in the means of production would leave the people in a hopeless, ambitionless, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"the indifferent, idle, ambitionless man who often, by reason of native capacity or sound early training, easily makes the passing mark which technically ..."

3. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1910)
"... babies' sacks or putting button-holes in shirts for some contractor or neighboring factory; children anaemic, ambitionless, already handicapped. ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1907)
"... another, smaller, thinner, less healthy, seems almost to sneak. A shuffling gait bespeaks the careless, irresponsible, ambitionless boy. ..."

5. The Bookman (1910)
"These ambitionless women, with their careless lives, are used as morals in many a narrative the finger of which is pointed at the stage. ..."

6. Russian Expansion on the Pacific, 1641-1850: An Account of the Earliest and by Frank Alfred Golder (1914)
"Money has far less power over him than is usually supposed. The hunter is more like the ambitionless native with whom he associates than the enthusiastic ..."

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