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Definition of Ambitious

1. Adjective. Having a strong desire for success or achievement.

2. Adjective. Requiring full use of your abilities or resources. "Performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

Definition of Ambitious

1. a. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

Definition of Ambitious

1. Adjective. Possessing, or controlled by ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. ¹

2. Adjective. Strongly desirous—followed by "of" or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. ¹

3. Adjective. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ambitious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambitious

ambisinister ambisinistrous ambisonic ambisonics ambisyllabicity ambit ambit claim ambition ambitioned ambitioning

ambitionist ambitionists ambitionless ambitionlessness ambitions ambitious (current term) ambitiously ambitiousness ambitiousnesses ambitransitive

ambitransitivity ambits ambitty ambitus ambituses ambivalence ambivalences ambivalency ambivalent ambivalently

Literary usage of Ambitious

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

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"WHY SO MANY ambitious MEN AND ... and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1821)
"His ' Student" tries public exertion, and politics, and ambitious love, ... food plain sensible essay-writing, we think that ' the ambitious tudent' holds a ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the needy, the spendthrift, the meanly ambitious, operated upon by Castlereagh, ... the rich man, ambitious of social distinction, got a peerage, ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"Black's " Strange Adventures of a House- Boat " is also a history of a more ambitious trip up the Thames and other picturesque rivers of England. ..."

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