ambitious
About 7.81 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
an ambitious person
- adjective Very desirous.
- adjective Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition.
an ambitious project
- adjective Hard to achieve.
an ambitious goal
Similar words
aspiring aspirant driven overambitious would-be enterprising pushy compulsive pushful hard
Often followed by
and of to young man for project plans men
Word family
ambitiously ambitiousness ambitiousnesses
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