ambitious

/æm'biʃəs/

Thân thiện

She has an ambitious plan to read fifty books this year.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Requiring full use of your abilities or resources: Describing a task, plan, or goal that is difficult to achieve and demands significant effort, skill, or resources.
   • Having a strong desire for success or achievement: Describing a person who is determined to be successful, powerful, or famous, often by setting challenging goals.

Usage Examples

• Describing a task or plan:
  • The company set an ambitious goal to double its revenue in one year.
  • Completing the project in two months was an ambitious timeline.
• Describing a person:
  • She is an ambitious young lawyer aiming for a partnership.
  • His ambitious nature drove him to start his own business.

Advanced Usage

• "Ambitious for": Having a strong desire for a specific thing.
  • He was always ambitious for power and recognition.
• "Ambitious to": Eager or determined to do something.
  • She was ambitious to prove her critics wrong.

Variants and Related Words

• Ambition (n): A strong desire to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.
  • His lifelong ambition was to become a doctor.
• Ambitionsly (adv): In a manner showing a strong desire for success.
  • She worked ambitionsly on her research.
• Overambitious (adj): Having aims that are overly ambitious and possibly unrealistic.
  • The overambitious plan was doomed to fail.

Synonyms

• Aspiring: Directing one's hopes or ambitions toward becoming a specified type of person.
• Determined: Having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.
• Enterprising: Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
• Challenging (for tasks/plans): Testing one's abilities; demanding.

Antonyms

• Unambitious: Not having or showing any desire to be successful, powerful, or famous.
• Lazy: Unwilling to work or use energy.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Burning ambition: An extremely strong and passionate desire to achieve something.
  • He had a burning ambition to win an Olympic medal.
• Climb the ladder: To make progress in one's career or social status (often associated with ambition).
  • She was determined to climb the corporate ladder.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. requiring full use of your abilities or resources
   • ambitious schedule
   • performed the most challenging task without a mistake
2. having a strong desire for success or achievement

Từ đồng nghĩa

• challenging