Word Finder - ambitious

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(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.

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an ambitious person

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(followed by "of" or the infinitive) Very desirous

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Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition

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an ambitious attempt to take power

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• aspiring
• showy

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Hard to achieve.

She was ambitious, driven by her need for power.

I make sure ambitious people like you don't mess up this world.

Truly, we are deep thinkers, we are ambitious spirits!

The themes of all his more ambitious poems can be traced to Chaucerian sources.

For a time Bela was equally fortunate in the north-west, where the ambitious and enterprising Piemyslidae had erected a new Bohemian empire which absorbed the territories of the old Babenbergers and was very menacing to Hungary.

Tim had been prepared for this day by two generations of ambitious men who intended to see someone of their bloodline in the seat of power.

The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

She was the daughter of Gratien Phlipon, a Paris engraver, who was ambitious, speculative and nearly always poor.

Soter (reigned 162-150) was a strong and ambitious ruler.

We may religion regard his ambitious programme as the last logical development of idealism and indeed of philosophy itself.

The boy's talents justified the ambitious hopes which his parents entertained of his future.

The Nuremberg globe is a work of a more ambitious order.

Strong, talented and ambitious, Gaveston gained great influence over young Edward, and early in 1307 he was banished from England by the king; but he returned after the death of Edward I.

Thus, appeared the grand-prince of Suzdal or Vladimir, of Tver,, of Ryazan and of Moscow - all irreconcilable rivals with little or no feeling of blood-relationship. The more ambitious and powerful among them aspired not to succeed but to subdue the others and to take possession of their territory, and the armed.

Because military accomplishments were one way to do that, the military attracted the most ambitious young men eager to prove themselves—and "proving themselves" meant battle.

His idea is equal parts ambitious and audacious.

For the ambitious Moscow princes many of the Byzantine ideas were very acceptable.

As the Muscovite and the Lithuano-Polish princes were equally ambitious and equally anxious to widen their borders, they naturally came into conflict.

On hearing of the death of the poet Dakiki, he conceived the ambitious design of himself carrying out the work which the latter had only just commenced; and, although he had not then any introduction to the court, he contrived, thanks to one of his friends, Mahommed Lashkari, to procure a copy of the Dihkan Danishwer's collection, and at the age of thirty-six commenced his great undertaking.

Capponi resigned in October 1848, and Leopold reluctantly consented to a democratic ministry led by Guerrazzi and Montanelli, the former a very ambitious and unscrupulous man, the latter honest but fantastic. Following the Roman example, a constituent assembly was demanded to vote on union with Rome and eventually with the rest of Italy.

And this is true not only of the dogmatic parties; solitary monks and ambitious priests, hard-headed critical exegetes,' allegorists, mystics, all found something congenial in his writings.

She's ambitious and not afraid to challenge the public's expectations.

He was an enthusiastic, but a fickle and ambitious demagogue, and he achieved a better reputation as a writer.

I suppose I'm simply not very ambitious.

An ambitious attempt to produce in England a general series of coloured plates on a large scale was Louis Fraser's Zoologia Typica, .

This reveals the empiricist temper, and points to an attempted empiricist solution of great problems. Butler holds that more ambitious philosophies are valid, but he shrinks from their use.

The chief con spirator, Shuiski, seized the power and was elected tsar by an Assembly composed of his faction, but neither Shuiski, the ambitious boyars, nor the pillaging Cossacks, nor the German mercenaries were satisfied with the change, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dimitri, son of Tsar Ivan, came forward as the rightful heir.

His interests were secular and he was certainly proud and ambitious; but Stubbs has pictured the fairer side of his character when he observes that Beaufort "was merciful in his political enmities, enlightened in his foreign policy; that he was devotedly faithful, and ready to sacrifice his wealth and labour for the king; that from the moment of his death everything began to go wrong, and 'went worse and worse until all was lost."

Politically, this ambitious and progressive capital is the creation of the Magyar upper classes.

In 1460, during the reign of the fourteenth Caran Shyri, or king of the Cara nation, Hualcopo Duchisela, the conquest of Quito was undertaken by Tupac Yupanqui, the Inca of Peru; and his ambitious schemes were, not long after his death, successfully carried out by his son Huayna-Capac, who inflicted a decisive defeat on the Quitonians in the battle of Hatuntaqui, and secured his position by marrying Pacha, the daughter of the late Shyri.

Yet in a less ambitious form the fundamental contentions of Hegel's method tend to find a qualified acceptance.

Grassmann's object seems to have been, all along, of a much more ambitious character, viz.

It is clear from Guicciardini's autobiographical memoirs that he was ambitious, calculating, avaricious and power-loving from his earliest years; and in Spain he had no more than an opportunity of studying on a large scale those political vices which already ruled the minor potentates of Italy.

It is not merely that he was ambitious, cruel, revengeful and avaricious, for these vices have existed in men far less antipathetic than Guicciardini.

Charles the Great, having proclaimed himself successor of the Caesars, was obscurely ambitious of imitating the Augusti also in the sphere of letters.

Adolphus Adolphus Frederick (q.v.) would have given even less Frederick trouble than his predecessor but for the ambitious IL, 1751- promptings of his masterful consort Louisa Ulrica, 1771.

When Courbet had made a name as an artist he grew ambitious of other glory; he tried to promote democratic and social science, and under the Empire he wrote essays and dissertations.

Lord Palmerston, however, preferred the less important office of secretary-at-war, charged exclusively with the financial business of the army, without a seat in the cabinet, and in this position he remained, without any signs of an ambitious temperament or of great political abilities, for twenty years (1809-1828).

He was ambitious and self-seeking, but unstable and unprincipled, and, lacking the fine qualities of his brothers, excelled neither in war nor in peace.

The latter, an able, ambitious man, wishing to keep the government as much as possible in his own hands, purposely neglected the young king's education, and encouraged him in his love of pleasure, his idleness and his excessive devotion to outdoor sports.

He tried to captivate the ambitious fancy of the king.

The revamped menu, launched in May, includes ambitious dishes like lamb couscous and parmesan fried chicken.

This is the most ambitious, and possibly the most exciting, trekking peak expedition we have yet devised.

Itâs ambitious, it seemed impossible a year ago, when we were facing financial ruin and our very existence was uncertain.

The temples and the palaces were indeed laid out with careful forethought and ambitious vision.

They will be ambitious, driven and have the necessary gravitas to lead a team and demonstrate superb presentation skills.

To lend impetus to this, he planned an ambitious three day bazaar in the school Chapel in September 1908.

It is driving forward ambitious proposals to reform incapacity Benefits and the delivery of public services for disabled people.

It is perhaps invidious to criticize such an ambitious and fundamentally valuable undertaking as this on these grounds.

Already, the English judiciary is receiving the most ambitious training program on the Human Rights Act ever undertaken.