aspiring
Hoping to become
Aspiring describes someone who hopes or strives to become something they aren't yet: an aspiring actor, an aspiring novelist, an aspiring chef.
The word carries earnestness and ambition but also implies the goal remains unachieved.
She's an aspiring singer working as a waitress.
Unlike would-be, aspiring suggests active effort rather than mere wishing.
Developing from an outgrowth
- nascentBeginning to develop
- risingAct of ascending
- developingBecoming more advanced
- emergingComing into view
fledgling · blooming · burgeoning · growing · maturing · evolving · dawning · promising
Focused on objectives
- motivatedSpurred to action
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
- endeavorPurposeful sustained attempt
ambition · driven · enterprising · industrious · perseverance · tenacious · up-and-coming · visionary
budding
Developing from an outgrowth
- nascentBeginning to develop
- risingAct of ascending
- developingBecoming more advanced
emerging · fledgling · blooming · burgeoning · growing · maturing · evolving · dawning · promising · potential
goal-oriented
Focused on objectives
- motivatedSpurred to action
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
endeavor · ambition · driven · enterprising · industrious · perseverance · tenacious · up-and-coming · visionary · pioneering
beginner
One who lacks experience
- apprenticeLearner bound to employer
- traineeOne being instructed
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
learner · intern · protege · neophyte · rookie · greenhorn · entrant · candidate · hopeful · dreamer
- hobbyist levelsbeginner, novice, intermediate, advanced, expert
- wantingwant, desire, crave, yearn, long
- effortstrying, striving, endeavoring, struggling, pushing
- achievementaccomplished, accomplishing, achieved, achievement, accomplishment
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, fantasy
- longingyearning, pining, craving, hankering, wishing
aspiringunambitious
Lacking desire for achievement
unmotivated · ambitionless · unaspiring · apathetic · lazy
aspiringestablished
Formally set up
accomplished · arrived · successful · achieved · realized
spirit, inspire, inspiration, conspiracy, expire, aspire, aspiration, uninspired, expiration