Ambitious vs. Driven — What's the Difference?

Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.

Past participle of drive.

Greatly desirous; eager

Piled up or carried along by a current

Requiring or showing much effort; challenging

Motivated by or having a compulsive quality or need

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

Caused, sustained, or stimulated

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

Powered, operated, or controlled

Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition

Inflection of drive

Hard to achieve.

Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

Formed into snowdrifts by wind.

Strongly desirous; - followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.

Of Drive. Also adj.

Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.

Compelled forcibly by an outside agency;

Having a strong desire for success or achievement

Urged or forced to action through moral pressure;

Requiring full use of your abilities or resources;

Strongly motivated to succeed