Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being ambitious; ambition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
ambitious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong drive for success
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Examples
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The "ambitiousness" - meter really undermines this.
Daring Fireball John Gruber 2010
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I both applaud and laugh my ass off at the ambitiousness of summit in trying to get such top shelf directors for twilight.
Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant and Bill Condon All Offered Twilight: Breaking Dawn | /Film 2010
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Nearly 1,800 budding business owners responded, pitching ideas that displayed ambitiousness, earnestness, smarts and yes, even misguided drive and planning.
Month 2: For business owners, finances are on their minds 2010
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Near 1,800 budding business owners responded, pitching ideas displaying ambitiousness, earnestness, smarts and yes, even misguided drive and planning.
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Carrie Ann tells Maks not to smile WTF? and likes the ambitiousness of the lifts, but not the story behind them.
Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 2011
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Because when George Bush got elected the second time you really felt helpless, and then with Obama there was this onrush of hope and ambitiousness, and then... we've been kind of disappointed.
Ben Evans: John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys on Liquor and Politics Ben Evans 2011
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And even greater ambitiousness -- on a level quite impressive even for Washington -- to want to take down the guy second only to the president himself.
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The ambitiousness of Sebastian Junger's "War" is summed up in its title.
Sebastian Junger's 'War,' reviewed by Philip Caputo Philip Caputo 2010
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When an allegation treats the very ambitiousness of the work itself as evidence not of a writer's ambition for that work but rather as evidence of their personal ambitions -- their shallow desire for attention -- that allegation can be disregarded as conspiracy theory rather than valid critique.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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And even greater ambitiousness -- on a level quite impressive even for Washington -- to want to take down the guy second only to the president himself.
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