ambitiousadjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/B2 having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich:
an ambitious young lawyer
He's very ambitious for his children (= he wants them to be successful).
B2 If a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved:
She has some ambitious plans for her business.
The government has announced an ambitious plan to modernize the railway network.
The original completion date was over-ambitious, so we have had to delay the opening.
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- She's very ambitious but I doubt she'll ever make it to the top.
- He described the plan as ambitious and audacious.
- The government is persisting with its ambitious public works programme.
- We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family.
- Robert is a self-centred, ambitious, and bigoted man.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- aspirational
- burn
- fancy
- finger
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- hungry
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
- think big idiom
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Complicated and difficult to do
ambitiously
adverb uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs.li/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs.li/