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aspirationnoun eager desire for personal advancementa combination of aspiration and hard work made her the top tennis player in the state ambition, ambitiousness, go-getting determination, diligence, drive, energy, enterprise, go, hustle, industry, initiative, motivation, pushaggression, competitiveness, killer instinctopportunism, overambitiousness, pretentiousness, pushinessassertiveness, daring, spiritardor, avidity, eagerness, keenness, passionavarice, greed, hunger apathy, halfheartedness, indifference, unconcernidleness, indolence, inertia, laziness, lethargy, shiftlessness, sloth something that one hopes or intends to accomplishcollege is his immediate aspiration after he graduates from high school aim, ambition, bourne(also bourn), design, dream, end, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, plan, point, pretension, purpose, target, thing grail, holy grailplot, project, schemedesire, hope, mind, wishnirvanadestination, terminus name of the game means, method, way ambition, aspiration, pretension mean strong desire for advancement.ambition applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire.driven by ambition aspiration implies a striving after something higher than oneself.an aspiration to become president someday pretension suggests ardent desire for recognition of accomplishment often without actual possession of the necessary ability and therefore may imply presumption.has literary pretensions in the 14th century |