ambitiously
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4.1
- adverb
- /æmˈbɪʃəsli/
- She ambitiously pursued her dream of becoming an author, dedicating every spare moment to writing.
- more ambitiously
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Watch on YouTubeI see all failure as a temporary defeat, which means if I just dust myself off, create a new plan and ambitiously attack it, this time it'll work.
- I see all failure as a temporary defeat, which means if I just dust myself off, create a new plan and ambitiously attack it, this time it'll work.
- And then and then beyond that, like we're really confronting the possibility that we just like we have not been planning ambitiously enough for success.
Examples
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Unions and other worker associations are increasingly trading wage restraint for worker ownership, or more ambitiously, for greater worker control over investment and enterprise management.
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" Angell and his fellow trustees ambitiously undertook many strategies for reaching the points."
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I tried more ambitiously to draw this, but here is the simpler case.
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So like, sit down and write as ambitiously as you'd like a perfect day from start to finish.
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In such an ambitiously conceived scheme, history is not just a mandatory background but an essential element of the design.
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To this end, the United States has ambitiously devised systems of testing to help ensure that all students have these literacies.
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More ambitiously, countries might negotiate limited mutual responsibilities with the central bank whose currency they adopt.
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I see all failure as a temporary defeat, which means if I just dust myself off, create a new plan and ambitiously attack it, this time it'll work.
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Here, of course, Descartes's project moves ambitiously beyond Carlyle's Romanticism.
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As Coleridge ambitiously observes, "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity" (173).
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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3.9
To act in a determined way to reach a clear goal
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3.0
In a lively and eager way
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5.4
Doing something with great energy and strong interest
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3.8
In a way that shows strong will to keep trying
Antonyms
How Ambitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ambitiously comes from ambition, a word that once came from a Latin verb meaning 'to go around' to ask people for support. So, to act ambitiously is to work with energy and aim to achieve success.