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单词 ambitionless
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ambitionlessadj.

Brit. /amˈbɪʃnləs/, U.S. /æmˈbɪʃ(ə)nləs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ambition n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < ambition n. + -less suffix.
That has no ambition or drive; characterized by a lack of ambition.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > indifference > [adjective] > lacking ambition
ambitionless1746
1746 Congratulatory Let. to Cardinal Tencin 17 A poor good-for-nothing, lifeless, ambitionless, unfrenchified, uncatholic, unpapistical-Cardinal.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. iii. 112 The simple hind, who seemed Ambitionless, arrayed in humble garb.
1857 Harper's Mag. June 14/1 The saving feature in the style of this building is to be found in its wholly ambitionless aspect. It is content to be big, solid, square, and lofty.
1937 V. Loggins I hear Amer. xiii. 336 [He] was an ambitionless doctor, more interested in playing with inventions than in practicing medicine.
a1969 J. K. Toole Confederacy of Dunces (1982) 135 She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace.
2009 New Yorker 5 Oct. 79/2 It's the heroine who's the ambitionless slob, a grad-school dropout treading water as a waitress and living in a pigsty of an apartment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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