ambitious

ambitious
    adj 1: having a strong desire for success or achievement [ant:
           {ambitionless}, {unambitious}]
    2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious
       schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a
       mistake" [syn: {ambitious}, {challenging}]
    

Ambitious \Am*bi"tious\, a. [L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux.
   See {Ambition}.]
   1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or
      inordinately desirous of power, honor, office,
      superiority, or distinction.
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            Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
            And Brutus is an honorable man.       --Shak.
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   2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive;
      as, ambitious to be or to do something.
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            I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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            Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in
            vain.                                 --Cowper.
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   3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition;
      showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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            A giant statue . . .
            Pushed by a wild and artless race,
            From off wide, ambitious base.        --Collins.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambitious":
      adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, anxious, aspiring,
      audacious, avaricious, avid, bold, careerist, careeristic,
      chimerical, classy, daring, driving, dynamic, eager, emulous,
      energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, extravagant, fancy, flossy,
      forceful, go-ahead, grandiose, greedy, hard-working, high-flown,
      high-flying, high-reaching, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting,
      hopeful, hustling, impractical, indefatigable, keen, lofty,
      on the make, ostentatious, overambitious, overzealous,
      power-hungry, pretentious, pushful, pushing, pushy, sky-aspiring,
      social-climbing, tony, unrealistic, up-and-coming, utopian,
      vaulting, vaunting, venturesome, venturous, vigorous, visionary,
      yuppy, zealous