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What is the adjective for ambitious?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb ambition which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ambitious
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. aspiring, eager, committed, determined, driven, enthusiastic, keen, motivated, hungry, intent, purposeful, spirited, striving, assertive, avid, desirous, fierce, industrious, zealous, adventurous, ardent, earnest, energetic, go-getting, hopeful, pioneering, progressive, pushy, active, enterprising, forceful, inspired, militant, thirsty, focussed, focused, planful, ruthless, vigorous, goal-oriented, self-driven, single-minded, hard-driving, power-hungry, power-loving, self-starting, bent upon, go-ahead, high-reaching, desiring success … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Being naturally ambitious, he placed an extraordinary amount of pressure on himself to succeed.”
      “The compendium was a hugely ambitious project, assembled by a group of the world's top journalists.”
      “He was ambitious to make his business a success.”
ambitionless
  1. Without ambition or motivation
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shiftless, lazy, indolent, slothful, idle, apathetic, lethargic, lackadaisical, lifeless, slack, spiritless, unambitious, inattentive, workshy, worthless, unenergetic, incompetent, aimless, loafing, inefficient, inept, unindustrious, unmotivated, laggard, irresponsible, unenterprising, dallying, lagging, procrastinating, feckless, improvident, directionless, good-for-nothing, lacking in ambition … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The shepherd's life in the far West is as uninteresting, ambitionless, and lonely an existence as falls to the lot of man.”
      “Mischief is sure to crop up, in one form or another, among the idle and ambitionless.”
      “Here it's the heroine who's the ambitionless slob, a grad-school dropout treading water as a waitress and living in a pigsty of an apartment.”
ambitioned
  1. Having ambition
ambitiouser
  1. (rare) comparative form of ambitious: more ambitious
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eagerer, keener, hungrier, fiercer, earnester, pushier, thirstier, more committed, more determined, more driven, more enthusiastic, more motivated, more intent, more purposeful, more spirited, more assertive, more avid, more desirous, more industrious, more zealous, more adventurous, more ardent, more energetic, more go-getting, more hopeful, more progressive, more active, more enterprising, more forceful, more inspired, more militant, more focussed, more focused, more planful, more ruthless, more vigorous, more single-minded, more power-hungry, more go-ahead, more self-assertive, more upwardly mobile, more self-seeking, harder, difficulter, bolder, tougher, severer, grander, loftier, stiffer … more
ambitiousest
  1. superlative form of ambitious: most ambitious
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eagerest, keenest, hungriest, fiercest, earnestest, pushiest, thirstiest, most committed, most determined, most driven, most enthusiastic, most motivated, most intent, most purposeful, most spirited, most assertive, most avid, most desirous, most industrious, most zealous, most adventurous, most ardent, most energetic, most go-getting, most hopeful, most progressive, most active, most enterprising, most forceful, most inspired, most militant, most focussed, most focused, most planful, most ruthless, most vigorous, most single-minded, most power-hungry, most go-ahead, most self-assertive, most upwardly mobile, most self-seeking, hardest, difficultest, boldest, toughest, severest, grandest, loftiest, stiffest … more
ambitioning
  1. present participle of ambition
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