Synonyms for ambitious
æmˈbɪʃ əsam·bi·tious

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1. ambitiousadjective

   having a strong desire for success or achievement

   Synonyms:
   challenging

   Antonyms:
   shiftless, easy, unambitious, ambitionless

2. ambitious, challengingadjective

   requiring full use of your abilities or resources

   "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

   Synonyms:
   challenging, intriguing, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unambitious, shiftless, ambitionless, easy

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1. ambitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   aspiring, eager for superiority, eager for distinction or fame

2. ambitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   showy, pretentious

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1. ambitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   aspiring, emulous, desirous, showy, pretentious, ostentatious

   Antonyms:
   unambitious, indifferent

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1. List of paraphrases for "ambitious":

   far-reaching, aspirational, challenging, bold

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1. Justin Trudeau:

   I know that renewing our relationship is an ambitious goal, but I am equally certain that it is one we can, and will, achieve if we work together.

2. George Beebe:

   Most Russians see U.S. relations as a fundamental source of the relationship's problems, in their view, Washington grew too ambitious in the aftermath of the Cold War. It attempted to remake Russia and remake the world according to American preferences and this from the Russian point of view proved to be disastrous.It helped to produce the collapse of the Russian state during the 1990s. It led to destabilizing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It produced a long series of punitive sanctions by the U.S. meant to coerce Moscow into submission.And rather than pursuing Gorbachev's bold vision of a common European home that included Russia in the broad security architecture, the U.S. opted to make NATO the foundation for European security, to bring NATO closer to Russia's borders.

3. Gernot Rohr:

   We are staying humble but we are also ambitious and if we are to get out of this group, we have to make a result against Croatia tomorrow.

4. Angela Merkel:

   I hope that the ambitious plans for climate protection become reality, which means all of us - or most of us - will have to do more to reach the targets for 2030. But we also want to commit to reach climate neutrality by 2050. I can only stress that this is Germany's goal.

5. Roger Wiens:

   It is amazing to see SuperCam working so well on Mars, when The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing first dreamed up this instrument eight years ago, The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing worried that The SuperCam,arock-vaporizing were being way too ambitious. Now it is up there working like a charm.