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ambition, aspiration, pretension mean strong desire for advancement. ambition applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire. aspiration implies a striving after something higher than oneself.
Ambition definition: an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment. See examples of AMBITION used in a sentence.
Synonyms for AMBITION: aspiration, determination, motivation, ambitiousness, opportunism, initiative, energy, greed; Antonyms of AMBITION: indifference, apathy, unconcern, inertia, lethargy, laziness, indolence, idleness.
a strong wish to be successful, powerful, rich, etc.: She has a lot of ambition. Fewer examples. Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession. We are looking for someone with drive and ambition. Driving ambition is what most great leaders have in common.
Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. It's what Macbeth had too much of, and what slackers have too little of. If a person has ambition, the goal is usually wealth, power, or fame. This Middle English word is derived from Latin ambitiō, from ambīre "to go around or about."
a strong wish to be successful, powerful, rich, etc.: She has a lot of ambition. Fewer examples. Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession. We are looking for someone with drive and ambition. Driving ambition is what most great leaders have in common.
ambition. noun. /æmˈbɪʃn/. /æmˈbɪʃn/. [countable] something that you want to do or achieve very much. She had fulfilled her lifelong ambition. His burning ambition was to study medicine. political/artistic/career ambitions. At last he had realized his life's ambition.
AMBITION definition: 1. something you want to achieve in your life: 2. a strong feeling that you want to be successful…. Learn more.
Ambition Definition. An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power. A strong desire to gain a particular objective; specif., the drive to succeed, or to gain fame, power, wealth, etc. The object or goal desired. Her ambition is the presidency. The objective strongly desired.
[uncountable] the desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc. motivated by personal ambition She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition. See ambition in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: ambition. Definition of ambition noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
