ambitious
Eager for success
Ambitious describes someone who has strong desires for success, achievement, or advancement, often in career or social standing.
An ambitious person sets high goals and pursues them with determination.
The word can carry positive connotations of drive and aspiration, or negative ones suggesting excessive eagerness for power or status.
Projects and plans can also be ambitious when they're boldly conceived or require significant effort: an ambitious renovation, an ambitious five-year plan.
Focused on objectives
- up-and-comingLikely to succeed soon
- emergingComing into view
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
striver · hopeful · eager · hungry · climbing · rising · budding · promising
Fixed in purpose
- tenaciousStubbornly determined to continue
- perseveringMaintaining effort despite difficulty
- steadfastFirmly loyal, unshakeable
- unwaveringSteady and unchanging
dogged · unyielding · persistent · unrelenting · indomitable · single-minded · focused · committed
Ongoing contest between opponents
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- leaderboardRanked list of competitors
- raceCompetition of speed
adversary · arena · trophy · winning · cutthroat · aggressive · ruthless · vying
Accomplished goal or deed
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- accoladeExpression of high esteem
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
advancement · glory · wealth · eminence · prestige · fame · excellence · influence
Demanding strenuous effort
- demandingRequiring great effort
- toughDurable and strong
- formidableInspiring fear or respect
- dauntingDiscouraging through difficulty
rigorous · bold · audacious · complex · large-scale · far-reaching · sweeping · monumental
Exceeding sensible bounds
- ostentatiousShowily excessive
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- overblownInflated beyond reasonable proportion
- inflatedExpanded with gas
lofty · unrealistic · hubristic · megalomaniacal · pompous · vainglorious · self-aggrandizing · pie-in-the-sky
goal-oriented
Focused on objectives
- up-and-comingLikely to succeed soon
- emergingComing into view
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
dreamer · striver · hopeful · eager · hungry · climbing · rising · budding · promising · enterprising
resolute
Fixed in purpose
- tenaciousStubbornly determined to continue
- perseveringMaintaining effort despite difficulty
- steadfastFirmly loyal, unshakeable
unwavering · dogged · unyielding · persistent · unrelenting · indomitable · single-minded · focused · committed · dedicated
rivalry
Ongoing contest between opponents
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- leaderboardRanked list of competitors
race · adversary · arena · trophy · winning · cutthroat · aggressive · ruthless · vying · striving
achievement
Accomplished goal or deed
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- accoladeExpression of high esteem
recognition · advancement · glory · wealth · eminence · prestige · fame · excellence · influence · power
arduous
Demanding strenuous effort
- demandingRequiring great effort
- toughDurable and strong
- formidableInspiring fear or respect
daunting · rigorous · bold · audacious · complex · large-scale · far-reaching · sweeping · monumental · lofty
extravagant
Exceeding sensible bounds
- ostentatiousShowily excessive
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- overblownInflated beyond reasonable proportion
inflated · lofty · unrealistic · hubristic · megalomaniacal · pompous · vainglorious · self-aggrandizing · pie-in-the-sky · empire-building
- complimentssmart, talented, beautiful, funny, awesome
- lifestylessimple living, city life, family life, minimalism, rural life
- personalitiesintrovert, optimist, extrovert, pessimist, idealist
- traitshonesty, brave, calm, kindness, caring
- work traitshardworking, diligent, productive, efficient, lazy
- Type Acompetitive, driven, impatient, workaholic, perfectionist
ambitiousunambitious
Lacking desire for achievement
ambitionless · complacent · aimless · directionless · nonambitious
ambitiouscontent
What something contains
satisfied · fulfilled · complacent · accepting · unassuming
- lack of ambitionAbsence of drive
- be ambitiousDesire significant achievement
- human ambitionDrive to achieve more
- artistic ambitionDrive toward aesthetic excellence
ambition, unambitious, ambitiously, ambitiousness, ambitionless, overambitious, nonambitious, underambitious, overambitiousness