overambitious
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvəræmˈbɪʃəs/
:
sobreambicioso
- They set an overambitious deadline for the project, making it impossible to complete on time.
Examples
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Most of the attention has gone into investigating how the levees failed and how best to rebuild them, even though overambitious flood control was a prime cause of the conditions that made Katrina and Rita so deadly.
Academic text (2007) -
The post-Tiananmen regime had clearly been overambitious in its rectification program.
Academic text (1993) -
I was overambitious in the schedule of projects.
Blog text (22) -
By the beginning of the new century, it was obvious that the 1987 goals were overambitious.
Academic text (2005) -
Maybe, Odo thought, keeping both of the boys was just the slightest little bit overambitious.
Fiction book (1993) -
The responding teachers judged the social studies syllabus that became effective in 1996 to be overambitious, with too many topics and expectations.
Academic text (1998) -
In my observation, an unending or overambitious menu tends to create a hit-or-miss reputation for a restaurant.
Blog text (7) -
The substitute outcome becomes palatable to students over time, after college counselors alter student intentions by accumulating evidence, through grades and recordkeeping, that bachelor's degree aspirations are overambitious.
Academic text (2015) -
Her overambitious plan to start three businesses at once overwhelmed her.
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The movie's overambitious storyline tried to cover too many themes and ended up confusing the audience.
Synonyms
28
5.7
Exaggerated and showy in style or speech
2
9.8
Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you
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7.3
Trying to do more than is reasonable or possible
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8.0
Having very extreme ideas or plans that are unlikely to work
Wanting very great success that is unlikely to happen
Having goals or ideas that are too high and unrealistic
Antonyms
How Ambitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word overambitious joins over- ('too much') and ambitious (from ambition, 'a strong wish to succeed'). So, it describes plans or goals that are too big and often unrealistic.