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ambitious (iou)



ambitious adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French ambitieux or Latin ambitiosus, formed as AMBITION noun: see -OUS.]
Ardently desiring distinction, full of ambition. LME.
Strongly desirous of or for a thing, to be or to do something. LME.
Rising, swelling, towering. arch. E17.
Pope Helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale.
Showing or requiring ambition. M18.
E. O'Neill You can afford to make bigger, more ambitious plans now. E. Waugh Sebastian set me to draw it. It was an ambitious subject for an amateur.
ambitiously adverb LME.
ambitiousness noun L15.