vaulting

Examples

• All

• The athlete's vaulting pride made her believe she could win the championship without training.

• She had a vaulting sense of self-confidence, convinced that she could achieve her dreams without any obstacles.

• VAULTING up into a tree

  Fiction book (1992)

• O sleepless is the river under thee vaulting the sea, the prairies dreaming sod.

Synonyms

O

overreaching

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6 7.3

Trying to do more than is reasonable or possible

adds proud self confidence and aiming for very high, often unrealistic goals

O

overweening

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• Formal

3 9.8

Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you

focuses more on striving to reach very high goals rather than general self importance

O

overproud

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1 7.2

Believing you are better than other people and acting like it

tends to involve reaching for very high goals rather than pride alone

V

vaultingly ambitious

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• Literature

1 8.7

Wanting very great success that is unlikely to happen

adds a sense of proud self confidence and trying beyond reasonable limits

Antonyms

H

humility

104 3.8

Being modest and not thinking you are better than other people

M

modesty

34 3.5

Not being proud or bragging about your abilities

Compounds

P

pole vaulting

1 4.0

Jumping over a high bar using a long pole for support

F

fan vaulting

• Specialized

1 9.1

A stone ceiling with ribs that spread out like a fan in Gothic churches

V

vaulting horse

• Archaic

1 6.9

A long, solid piece of gymnastics equipment without handles that gymnasts run to and jump over

How Ambitious

vaulting

• Literature

1 8.2

overambitious

1 5.3

ambitious

131 3.7

unambitious

2 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology