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ambitious

/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/

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What does ambitious mean?

adjective

  1. Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
  2. Very desirous.
  3. Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition.
More meanings (1)

adjective

  1. Hard to achieve.

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And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233
She was bright, attractive, and I think I may add without fear of contradiction, very ambitious, and this in no bad sense.
Isaac Taylor HeadlandCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleProject Gutenberg ebook #523
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It offers music, dim lights, relatively ambitious architecture, eloquence, formality and mystery, the caressing meaninglessness that is at the heart of poetry.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270
The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
But if Fabre had been capable of climbing the professor's stairs with some such ambitious desires, he would quickly have been disabused.
Georges Victor LegrosFabre, Poet of ScienceTranslated by Bernard MiallProject Gutenberg ebook #3489