Ambitious
[æm'bɪʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) having a strong desire for success or achievement .
(adj.) requiring full use of your abilities or resources; 'ambitious schedule'; 'performed the most challenging task without a mistake' .
Typist: Virginia--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
(a.) Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
(a.) Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Aspiring, eager for superiority, eager for distinction or fame.[2]. Showy, pretentious.
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Examples
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. Plato. The Republic.
- He started at the word ambitious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We're an ambitious set, aren't we? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Does the ambitious young philosopher predict that electricity will supersede steam? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As he watched her with another covert look, he saw a certain ambitious triumph in her face which no assumed coldness could conceal. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious--would the term be suitable? Plato. The Republic.
- The same may be said of the passionate element:--the desires of the ambitious soul, as well as of the covetous, have an inferior satisfaction. Plato. The Republic.
- He is a puppy, your cousin--a quiet, serious, sensible, judicious, ambitious puppy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Plague came, threatening to destroy at once the aim of the ambitious and the hopes of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I wanted a job, he said, and was ambitious to take charge of the dynamo-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And not being ambitious they do not care about honour. Plato. The Republic.
- Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Other societies of Europe were equally ambitious of calling him a member. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She would try to be more ambitious than her heart would allow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She's so ambitious, but her heart is good and tender, and no matter how high she flies, she never will forget home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He had to dodge after all, to coast round the church, and finally to bend his tall form behind the Wynnes' ambitious monument. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am simply, in my original state--stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity--a cold, hard, ambitious man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I thought that commercially the thing was too ambitious, that Ferranti's ideas were too big, just then; that he ought to have started a little smaller until he was sure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Not an ambitious note, but still he sings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You have not valued my courtesy--the courtesy of a lady in loving you--who used to think of far more ambitious things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But his ambitious attempts to restore the ancient greatness of the empire probably overtaxed its resources. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, if you are not ambitious, you are-- He paused. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am not ambitious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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