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What does ambitious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Possessing, or controlled by ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or other distinction.
  2. Strongly desirous—followed by "of" or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
  3. Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring.
  4. Hard to achieve.
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His most ambitious music was abominated by conservative critics and also baffled concert audiences.
He quite clearly loves Europe, respecting its diversity but admiring its ambitious attempt to unify.
Some of these measures would have been rashly ambitious at the best of times.
Educated and ambitious, they are lured here by the promise of material acquisition.
If the jobs go overseas or pay at overseas wages, ambitious people will move to other fields.
Any ambitious, knowledgeable, diplomatic, well-connected woman could presumably do it.

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