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- Dictionaryambitious/amˈbɪʃəs/
adjective
- 1. having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed: "a ruthlessly ambitious workaholic" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of AMBITIOUS is having or controlled by ambition : having a desire to be successful, powerful, or famous. How to use ambitious in a sentence.
having a strong desire for success, achievement, power, or wealth: Even as a young man he was ambitious and self-assured. If you describe an activity as ambitious, you mean that it involves a lot of effort or expense: It was an ambitious project to restore the public parks.
Ambitious definition: having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.. See examples of AMBITIOUS used in a sentence.
having a strong desire for success, achievement, power, or wealth: Even as a young man he was ambitious and self-assured. If you describe an activity as ambitious, you mean that it involves a lot of effort or expense: It was an ambitious project to restore the public parks.
The ambitious person wishes to attain worldly success, and puts forth effort toward this end: ambitious for social position. The enterprising person, interested especially in wealth, is characterized by energy and daring in undertaking projects.
There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the word ambitious, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed. the government’s ambitious plans for social reform. Jogging every morning? That’s very ambitious, isn’t it? Several interns will be working on three ambitious new projects. Extra Examples. Topics Difficulty and failure b2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. opposite unambitious. Word Origin.
Ambitious means wanting to succeed. If you want to climb Mount Everest, start your own business, and write a great philosophical treatise all before you are 30, then wow, you are really ambitious. Having an ambition is a good thing, like wanting to get good grades, or to become a doctor.
adj. 1. having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, etc.: an ambitious student. 2. showing or caused by ambition; requiring exceptional effort, ability, etc.: an ambitious program for fighting crime. 3. strongly desirous; eager: ambitious of love.
1. Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful. [...] 2. An ambitious idea or plan is on a large scale and needs a lot of work to be carried out successfully. [...] More.
