Aspiring

aspiring
    adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn:
           {aspirant}, {aspiring(a)}, {wishful}]
    

Aspire \As*pire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Aspired}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Aspiring}.] [F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See {Aspirate}, v.
   t.]
   1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high
      or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after,
      and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire
      after immorality.
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            Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
            Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.     --Pope.
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   2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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            My own breath still foments the fire,
            Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. --Waller.
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Aspiring \As*pir"ing\, a.
   That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind. -- {As*pir"ing*ly}, adv.
   -- {As*pir"ing*ness}, n.
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58 Moby Thesaurus words for "aspiring":
      Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, ascending,
      assured, careerist, careeristic, colossal, confident, dominating,
      elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, expectant, fond,
      full of hope, haughty, high, high-flying, high-pitched,
      high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hopeful, hoping, in good heart,
      in hopes, lofty, monumental, mounting, of good cheer, of good hope,
      on the make, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, power-hungry,
      prominent, sanguine, sky-aspiring, soaring, social-climbing,
      spiring, steep, sublime, superlative, supernal, topless, toplofty,
      topping, towering, towery, undespairing, uplifted, upreared