English > ambitious: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having a strong desire for success / success or achievement. |
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| Attribute of | ambition, ambitiousness | A strong drive for success / success |
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| Narrower | aspirant, aspiring, wishful | desiring or striving for recognition or advancement |
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| compulsive, determined, driven | strongly motivated to succeed |
| manque, would-be | unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition |
| overambitious | excessively ambitious |
| pushful, pushy | marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative |
| See also | enterprising | marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects |
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| Opposite | unambitious, ambitionless | Having little desire for success / success or achievement |
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| Spanish | ambicioso |
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| Catalan | ambiciós |
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| Nouns | ambition, ambitiousness | a strong drive for success / success |
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| Adverbs | ambitiously | with ambition |
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