ambitious
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3.9
- adjective
- /æmˈbɪʃəs/
:
ambicioso
- Now President Kennedy has started an even more ambitious space program.
- ambitious project
- ambitious plan
- ambitious program
She sent a very ambitious trial schedule.
- She sent a very ambitious trial schedule.
- Thing is, though this plan was ambitious, It worked, at least at first.
- Just such a different ambitious, futuristic kind of approach.
- There are people surrounding him that have very dangerous, ambitious goals.
- Plus more ambitious attempts to build heavy industry through five year plans.
- It's about just tinkering and having fun building cool stuff like the big ambitious projects.
- And I want it to be even more ambitious, yeah, than it was before.
- So to me, like thinking of a holistic, an ambitious, a robust.
- Supporting those ambitious new things for a long time is hard.
- The humane AI pin is very ambitious and very different.
- Oh wow, it got a little ambitious there.
Examples
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Ongoing efforts provide cause for optimism and suggest that this ambitious goal is achievable.
Academic text (2013) -
Both our countries set ambitious new emissions targets.
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Supporting those ambitious new things for a long time is hard.
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And I think it's good to have these big, grand, ambitious plans.
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The Russians and the Chinese have one of the most ambitious economic visions for the Arctic.
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So it's NASA's most ambitious sample return mission since Apollo.
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Botanical gardens have tried to meet that ambitious goal since the mid-eighteenth century.
Academic text (2011) -
The student set an ambitious plan to complete her degree in just three years.
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Their ambitious project aims to provide clean energy to thousands of homes.
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He outlined an ambitious strategy to expand the business into new markets.
Synonyms
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4.4
Hard to do and needing a lot of effort
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7.7
Very difficult to do and needing a lot of effort over a long time
Needing a lot of time, effort, or attention
Compounds
How Ambitious
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Etymology
Ambitious comes from the same Latin root ambire, 'to go around', with the idea of reaching far. That's why an ambitious plan aims very high and needs a lot of skill and effort.