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goal | unaspiring |

As a noun goal

is gaul.

As a proper noun goal

is britain.

As an adjective unaspiring is

lacking ambition; not aspiring to any goal.

goal

English

(wikipedia goal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A result that one is attempting to achieve.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-02, volume=409, issue=8860, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A shrinking slice , passage=The goal should be to strengthen workers without hamstringing firms. Growth, rather than employment protection, is the priority. More work means a stronger labour market, which would bid up employees’ slice, as it did in America in the 1990s when unemployment was at record lows.}}
  • In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
  • The act of placing the object into the goal.
  • A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 15, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest , passage=The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.}}
  • A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

    • Synonyms

    * (a result one is attempting to achieve: ) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration * See also

    Derived terms

    (goal) * goalball * goal difference * goalie * goalkeeper * goalgetter * goalpost * goaltender * goal umpire * golden goal * silver goal * subgoal

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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