Ambitious
adjective
Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
She is an ambitious woman who wants to lead the company.
Often appears as...
- ambitious plan
- ambitious goal
adjective
Requiring exceptional effort, skill, or power.
The project is the most ambitious one the team has undertaken.
Often appears as...
- ambitious undertaking
- ambitious endeavour
adjective
Having a desire to be successful, powerful, or famous.
He's very ambitious, one day he wants to be the president.
Often appears as...
- ambitious for power
- ambitious for success
adjective
Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
She is an ambitious woman who wants to lead the company.
Often appears as...
- ambitious plan
- ambitious goal
adjective
Requiring exceptional effort, skill, or power.
The project is the most ambitious one the team has undertaken.
Often appears as...
- ambitious undertaking
- ambitious endeavour
adjective
Having a desire to be successful, powerful, or famous.
He's very ambitious, one day he wants to be the president.
Often appears as...
- ambitious for power
- ambitious for success
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Ambition
Represents a personal drive, often related to career or personal achievements.
She has ambitious dreams of becoming a best-selling author.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Mainly positive, implies commendable aspiration, but can suggest overreaching when excessive.
His ambitious nature earned him a promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Goal-Oriented
Often used with specific objectives or targets, referring to a clear end result.
The team set out with an ambitious sales target for the year.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Ambition
Represents a personal drive, often related to career or personal achievements.
She has ambitious dreams of becoming a best-selling author.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Mainly positive, implies commendable aspiration, but can suggest overreaching when excessive.
His ambitious nature earned him a promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Goal-Oriented
Often used with specific objectives or targets, referring to a clear end result.
The team set out with an ambitious sales target for the year.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Ambition
Represents a personal drive, often related to career or personal achievements.
She has ambitious dreams of becoming a best-selling author.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Mainly positive, implies commendable aspiration, but can suggest overreaching when excessive.
His ambitious nature earned him a promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Goal-Oriented
Often used with specific objectives or targets, referring to a clear end result.
The team set out with an ambitious sales target for the year.
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
films so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce? What if my roommate knew about my wonderfully ambitious hair braider, who has just started her own business selling hair extensions? Or about the millions of other Nigerians who start businesses and sometimes fail, but continue to nurse ambition?
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Elon Musk: The future...
Last time you were here, you spoke about what seemed like a kind of incredibly ambitious dream to develop rockets that were actually reusable. And you've only gone and done it. Finally. It took a long time. Talk us through this. What are we looking at here? So this is one of our rocket boosters
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
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The path toward...
of eight goals and these eight goals started with the reduction of poverty extreme poverty and hunger in the world ensuring that every child got a chance to attend school just the first six years we weren't being very ambitious just primary school I saw the tick-tock
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
drive people to be ambitious and without that nothing gets done so it's it feels like at some point in the last year seeing the progress on understanding you that you're that the ai the tesla ai understanding the world around it led to a kind of an aha moment
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The incredible...
allowing scientists to study the long-term physical and psychological effects of being in space, which would prove useful for increasingly ambitious space travel, like trips to Mars. Over its lifetime, we've learned an immense amount scientifically,
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How do we separate the...
often helping to identify the culprit. Separation techniques are not just about industry, infrastructure, medicine, and justice. One of the most technically ambitious projects in human history
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Best Cheetah Moments PIPE...
that's about as ambitious as any cheetah has ever been i may have been more exposed when i was on foot but it was an incredible thrill to share their world like this
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Cloudy climate change:...
in the pre-industrial climate be explained by an influence of galactic cosmic rays on clouds? Ambitious but realistic goals when your head's in the clouds.
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Deterring Sharks With an...
Most shark deterrents are designed to protect just one person. This one, which has been tested for two years, is much more ambitious.
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
films so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce? What if my roommate knew about my wonderfully ambitious hair braider, who has just started her own business selling hair extensions? Or about the millions of other Nigerians who start businesses and sometimes fail, but continue to nurse ambition?
Video examples
Elon Musk: The future...
Last time you were here, you spoke about what seemed like a kind of incredibly ambitious dream to develop rockets that were actually reusable. And you've only gone and done it. Finally. It took a long time. Talk us through this. What are we looking at here? So this is one of our rocket boosters
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
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The path toward...
of eight goals and these eight goals started with the reduction of poverty extreme poverty and hunger in the world ensuring that every child got a chance to attend school just the first six years we weren't being very ambitious just primary school I saw the tick-tock
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
drive people to be ambitious and without that nothing gets done so it's it feels like at some point in the last year seeing the progress on understanding you that you're that the ai the tesla ai understanding the world around it led to a kind of an aha moment
Video examples
The incredible...
allowing scientists to study the long-term physical and psychological effects of being in space, which would prove useful for increasingly ambitious space travel, like trips to Mars. Over its lifetime, we've learned an immense amount scientifically,
Video examples
How do we separate the...
often helping to identify the culprit. Separation techniques are not just about industry, infrastructure, medicine, and justice. One of the most technically ambitious projects in human history
Video examples
Best Cheetah Moments PIPE...
that's about as ambitious as any cheetah has ever been i may have been more exposed when i was on foot but it was an incredible thrill to share their world like this
Video examples
Cloudy climate change:...
in the pre-industrial climate be explained by an influence of galactic cosmic rays on clouds? Ambitious but realistic goals when your head's in the clouds.
Video examples
Deterring Sharks With an...
Most shark deterrents are designed to protect just one person. This one, which has been tested for two years, is much more ambitious.
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Quote examples
Madonna Ciccone
American Musician
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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Michelle Obama
American First Lady
When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she's sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
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Eydie Gorme
American Musician
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
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Kate Moss
English Model
I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Genesis Rodriguez
American Actress
My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
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Gianfranco Zola
Italian Athlete
In life you have to be ambitious, you have to look forward all the time.
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Darren Criss
American Actor
I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
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Hayley Atwell
English Actress
I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.
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Romelu Lukaku
Belgian Athlete
You have to be ambitious in life.
Quote examples
Madonna Ciccone
American Musician
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Quote examples
Yoko Ono
American Artist
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
Quote examples
Michelle Obama
American First Lady
When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she's sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Quote examples
Eydie Gorme
American Musician
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
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Kate Moss
English Model
I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Genesis Rodriguez
American Actress
My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
Quote examples
Gianfranco Zola
Italian Athlete
In life you have to be ambitious, you have to look forward all the time.
Quote examples
Darren Criss
American Actor
I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
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Hayley Atwell
English Actress
I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.
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Romelu Lukaku
Belgian Athlete
You have to be ambitious in life.
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