Ambitious

/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/

Synonyms for "ambitious" (109 found)

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Closest matches (22)

adventuresome adventurous aggressive anxious aspiring audacious avaricious avid bold careerist careeristic chimerical classy daring

Noun(2 words)

aspirantbreakthrough idea

Adjective(5 words)

aspirationalaspirational valuesbold challenging competitive

Verb(1 words)

aspired

Strong matches (33)

Adjective(6 words)

driven enterprising far-reaching goal-directed grandiosegreat leap forward policy

driving dynamic eager emulous energetic enterprising enthusiastic extravagant fancy flossy forcefulgo aheadgo-ahead grandiose greedy hard-workinghigh flownhigh flyinghigh-flown high-flying

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high-reaching high-toned highfalutin highfaluting hopeful

Noun(2 words)

forrard gunning

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Adjective(13 words)

hungrier hungriestlong thrust towardoverconfident overreachingproactive learnerself motivated studentspacefaring civilizationsspunkytall buildingthirsty unrealistic visionary

Verb(2 words)

hustled motivated

hustling impractical indefatigable keen loftyon the makeostentatious overambitious overzealous power-hungry pretentious pushful pushing pushy sky-aspiringsocial climbingsocial-climbing tony unrealisticup-and-coming

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utopian vaulting vaunting venturesome venturous vigorous visionary yuppy zealous

Noun(10 words)

jostling leapfrog leapfrogging maximalist moonshot reachingskyward directionskyward glancesports competitionstriving

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7 relation types

More general

9 entries

attitude attribute behavior characteristic descriptorplanning attributequality scale scope

More specific

7 entries

career goalgrand planhigh aspirationlong-term projectmega projectrisky ventureunrealistic plan

Collocations

6 entries

ambitious agendaambitious goalsambitious planambitious projectambitious research programambitious timetable

Inflections

2 entries

more ambitiousmost ambitious

Derivations

3 entries

ambition ambitiously ambitiousness

Antonyms

1 entries

unambitious

similar

14 entries

aspirant aspiring compulsive determined difficult driven enterprising hard manque overambitious pushful pushy wishful would-be

Sample sentences

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The ambitious man became intoxicated with his own success.

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Be ambitious, children.

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In the religious-cult trial, the ambitious lawyer will represent the cult leader.

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Boys, be ambitious.

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