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Urge vs Ambition - What's the difference?

urge | ambition |

As nouns the difference between urge and ambition

is that urge is gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent) while ambition is ambition for some particular achievement.

urge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong desire; an itch to do something.

    • Verb

    (urg)
  • To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
  • To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
  • To provoke; to exasperate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Urge not my father's anger.
  • To press hard upon; to follow closely.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
  • To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
    • to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
  • (obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
    • to urge an ore with intense heat
  • To press onward or forward.
  • To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

    • Synonyms

    * animate * incite * impel * instigate * stimulate * encourage

    Related terms

    * urgent

    See also

    * surge

    Anagrams

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    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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