Ambitious vs. Ambition — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ambitious and Ambition
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Ambitious
Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.
Ambition
An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.
Ambitious
Greatly desirous; eager
"I am not ambitious of ridicule" (Edmund Burke).
Ambition
The object or goal desired
Her ambition is the presidency.
Ambitious
Requiring or showing much effort; challenging
An ambitious schedule.
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Ambition
Desire for exertion or activity; energy
Had no ambition to go dancing.
Ambitious
(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
An ambitious person
Someone's ambitious nature
Ambition
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
Ambitious
(followed by "of" or the infinitive) Very desirous
Ambition
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
Ambitious
Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition
An ambitious project
An ambitious style
An ambitious attempt to take power
An ambitious plan
An ambitious goal
Ambition
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
Ambitious
Hard to achieve.
Ambition
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
Ambitious
Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.
Ambition
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Ambitious
Strongly desirous; - followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain.
Ambition
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Ambitious
Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race,From off wide, ambitious base.
Ambition
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Ambitious
Having a strong desire for success or achievement
Ambition
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Ambitious
Requiring full use of your abilities or resources;
Ambitious schedule
Performed the most challenging task without a mistake
Ambition
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Ambition
A cherished desire;
His ambition is to own his own business
Ambition
A strong drive for success
Ambition
Have as one's ambition
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