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Diligence vs Ambitious - What's the difference?

diligence | ambitious |

As a noun diligence

is conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something.

As an adjective ambitious is

possessing, or controlled by ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

diligence

English

(wikipedia diligence)

Noun

(en noun)
  • conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
  • A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
  • * 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
    • Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1879 , author= , title= , passage=Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.}}
  • (legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * due diligence

    Anagrams

    * ----

    ambitious

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Possessing, or controlled by ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
  • * 1891 , , "The Man with the Twisted Lip,"
    • As I grew richer I grew more ambitious , took a house in the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a suspicion as to my real occupation.
  • Strongly desirous—followed by "of" or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
  • Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring.
  • Hard to achieve.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

    Usage notes

    * Said of people, projects, plans, goals, etc.

    Derived terms

    * ambitiously * ambitiousness * overambitious

    Related terms

    * ambition

    References

    * * * * * " ambitious" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " ambitious" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * " ambitious" in Compact Oxford English Dictionary , (Oxford University Press, 2007)