1 determined to be successful, rich, powerful, etc:
a fiercely ambitious young manager * They were very ambitious for their children (= they wanted them to be successful).
2 needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed:
the government's ambitious plans for social reform * Jogging every morning? That's very ambitious, isn't it?
OPPUNAMBITIOUS
ambitiously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for ambitious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ambitious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ambitious is tagged as adjective.
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