Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Devoid of ambition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Devoid of ambition.
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- adjective Without
ambition ormotivation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having little desire for success or achievement
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Examples
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I do ask you to believe that I have them, that they are real, and that my being what you termed ambitionless and a country loafer is not my condition from choice.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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A cat's life can be rather ambitionless, chilled-out, aloof, unbothered -- a seemingly endless reverie with relatively few highs and lows -- but there comes a point when a cat must start sniffing out departure zones.
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I will be an English teacher, a role model [for tiny Korean children whose dream involves a happily ambitionless jaunt across many continents] and perhaps a Go master.
Test entry savemyseoul 2008
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As a Generation Y-er, I can vouch that my generation is nowhere near as ambitionless, apolitical, and apathetic as detractors try to peg us.
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And I hate the fact that they still think that I am an ambitionless moron.
hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004
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This is because everyone on the West Coast is an ambitionless vegetable addicted to marijuana.
GENERATION S.L U.T. Marty Beckerman 2004
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This is because everyone on the West Coast is an ambitionless vegetable addicted to marijuana.
GENERATION S.L U.T. Marty Beckerman 2004
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This is because everyone on the West Coast is an ambitionless vegetable addicted to marijuana.
GENERATION S.L U.T. Marty Beckerman 2004
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Existence had settled back to an ambitionless normality.
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I was so grateful that I asked her to marry me, though I found her dull company, ambitionless, too much of a shouter, a hitter.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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