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Definition of Overambitious
1. Adjective. Excessively ambitious.
Definition of Overambitious
1. Adjective. Excessively ambitious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overambitious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overambitious
Literary usage of Overambitious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy and the Sunday School: A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work by John L. Alexander (1913)
"THE WAGE-EARNER AND THE overambitious BOYS The wage-earning boys and the boys of
... The overambitious fellow who is pushing everything aside for a definite ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Craftsman. 26: 94. Ap. 48: 1331+ My. 30, '14. Regulation of building heights, map.
11. Am. City. 9: 513-7. D. '13. Restraining the overambitious skyscraper. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"But the traces which some modern critics have detected of admonitory satire of
that overambitious project are very faint and ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"The determination to have such a stage was strong in days when the world thought
him overambitious in hoping even to see his works 011 the repertories of ..."
5. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"This should preach a sermon to overambitious and exuberant youths who may have
to pay the piper all the remaining years of their lives for some athletic ..."
6. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1921)
"Dupuytren was the type of man whom grinding poverty in youth, perhaps also some
youthful disappointment in love, had made overambitious and overbearing. ..."
7. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"Our plans were overambitious. The summer had gone so well that we laid out too
big a program for the winter. It seemed, too, that everything that could ..."
8. A History of Suffrage in the United States by Kirk Harold Porter (1918)
"... along the line of a plan fostered by an overambitious board of public works.
Invasion of property rights and great extravagance were much complained of. ..."
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