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ambitionnoun eager desire for personal advancement"Talent without ambition will not make you a star," the singer's voice coach liked to remind her ambitiousness, aspiration, 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 readiness to engage in daring or difficult activitythe ambition shown by the undersea explorers of the Mariana Trench, the deepest in the world action, aggressiveness, drive, enterprise, go, hustle, initiative grit, gumption, pluck, snap, spirit, spunk, starchambitiousness, killer instinct, overambitiousnessassertiveness, self-relianceenergy, hardihood, pep, vigor, vitality inactivity, inertia, passivitydiffidence, faintheartedness, timidityhesitation, reluctanceindolence, laziness, lethargy something that one hopes or intends to accomplishhis ambition is to study international business, then get a job overseas aim, aspiration, 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 |