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ambition | unaspiring |

As a noun ambition

is ambition for some particular achievement.

As an adjective unaspiring is

lacking ambition; not aspiring to any goal.

ambition

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
    • My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
  • * Burke
    • the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
  • (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
    • My ambition is to own a helicopter.
  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
  • (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
  • (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
  • * Milton
    • [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "ambition")

    Related terms

    * ambience * ambient * ambit * ambitious * ambitionist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
    • Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.

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    unaspiring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking ambition; not aspiring to any goal.
  • * 1882 , , History of Woman Suffrage: 1861-1876 ,
    • But American women are not unawakened or unaspiring . To many of them, life has grown painful, because their advancing ideal is dishonored by a sense of violated justice.
  • * 1912 , ,
    • A more contented, fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived. All the species we have been sketching make departures more or less distant from the typical spire form, but none goes so far as this. Without any apparent cause it keeps near the ground, throwing out crooked, divergent branches like an orchard apple-tree, and seldom pushes a single shoot higher than fifteen or twenty feet above the ground.
  • * 2000 , , The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy ,
    • First you have to realize the Highest. Only then can you dare to mix with unaspiring' people. When you mix with ' unaspiring people, it is as if you are going to visit a mental hospital. Unless you yourself are very powerful, you will also be affected.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    * “ una?spiring, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989