ambitious

[æmˈbɪʃəs]

Definition:
1. Having a strong desire for success or achievement.
2. Determined to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.
3. Requiring full use of your abilities or resources.
4. Needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed.

Similar: ambition

Use 'ambitious' in a sentence:

1. You're an ambitious man. You're not in politics for your health — that I know.
2. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
3. This is ambitious in any circumstances, and in a divided and unequal society the two ideals can clash outright.
4. It's just too ambitious for the scope of the assignment.
5. The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.
6. He has always been ambitious and fiercely competitive.
7. For socially ambitious couples this is a problem.
8. This ambitious adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed novel.
9. In the later stages of his directorial career, Orson Welles began work on several ambitious films.
10. Complex family relationships interweave with a murder plot in this ambitious new novel.
11. She is ambitious to succeed.
12. She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances such as The Sea, in which her dancers invisibly agitated a huge expanse of silk, played upon by colored lights.
13. Her parents were intensely ambitious for her and her younger sister.
14. She shows a full range of emotions in her portrayal of an ambitious politician.
15. Throughout American history there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere.
16. As a way of repairing some of that damage, a group of conservation biologists has proposed an ambitious, or some might say, a radical plan, involving large vertebrates, or, megafauna.
17. Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in four months.
18. Diplomats now expect the mission to be much less ambitious.
19. His plans are admirable ambitious: he wants to master French, German and Spanish before he is twenty.
20. Marcus was handsome, dynamic and ambitious.
21. This is an ambitious piece of work.
22. For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.
23. One may be poor but never ceases to be ambitious.
24. As a result, many Americans were inveterately restless, rootless, and ambitious people.
25. He is an ambitious man.
26. In general, these "short sleeps" appeared ambitious, active, energetic, cheerful, conformis in their opinions, and very sure about their career choices.
27. He's a very ambitious lad and he wants to play at the highest level.
28. The actress is ambitious of applause.
29. The author qualified the hero as an ambitious youth.
30. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitious or love of comfort.
31. This is an ambitious and intriguing movie, full of striking imagery.
32. Jeya feels that her ambitious nature made her unsuitable for an arranged marriage.
33. Their goal was extraordinarily ambitious.
34. Only ambitious students get the best marks.
35. More recently, however, some companies have been investing money in a more ambitious undertaking: learning how to adjust the fundamental make-up of the food they sell.
36. Environmental groups, encouraged by these examples, have begun to talk about much more ambitious projects.
37. He was immensely ambitious but unable to conceive of winning power for himself.
38. Chris is so ambitious, so determined to do it all.
39. They were very ambitious for their children.
40. Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life" and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
41. We are looking for an ambitious young assistant.
42. The man has always been very ambitious.
43. The ambitious project was completed in only nine months.
44. Although not the first brand to claim its advert can be viewed on Google Earth, the KFC logo is certainly one of the most ambitious.
45. She is tough and ambitious.
46. The language is almost intoxicating, an aging writer looking back on an ambitious yet simpler time.
47. I agree I am ambitious, and I don't see that as a pejorative term.
48. He described the plan as ambitious and audacious.
49. Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear.
50. More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.
51. He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.
52. I'm as ambitious as the next man. I'd like to manage at the very highest level.
53. He has cast her as an ambitious lawyer in his latest movie.
54. Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then.
55. This is an ambitious and intriguing film, full of striking imagery.
56. For such people and many more perhaps not so exceptional, the proper formulation is, "Succeed at all costs but avoid appearing ambitious."
57. He is ambitious and susceptible to flattery.
58. "Attracting the brightest and most ambitious postgraduate and research students is critical if the UK is to maintain its quality reputation for research," Beall said.
59. He was by his own account an ambitious workaholic.
60. Alfred was intensely ambitious, obsessed with the idea of becoming rich.
61. A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
62. The program is laudably ambitious.