Synonym: aspiring, intent upon, set on. Similar words: ambiguous, exhibition, bumptious, various, obvious, envious, curious, dubious. Meaning: [-ʃəs] adj. 1. having a strong desire for success or achievement 2. requiring full use of your abilities or resources.
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151. Such an ambitious target was dependent upon adequate financial flows, access to the North's markets and secure oil supplies.
152. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
153. Leopards are by no means always so ambitious in choosing their victims.
154. Indeed, it is giving the impression of being much less ambitious and much more practical than in the past.
155. Conductive education is also about setting ambitious goals, and then getting children to achieve them because they want a for themselves.
156. They did so for complex reasons that border on the religious, not the ambitious.
157. It is ambitious and beautiful; what is more, it acknowledges the importance of being sophisticated for adult business people.
158. One of the most ambitious of the Presbyterian preachers who embodied the new ministerial style was the Reverend Lyman Beecher.
159. Giddy from their wartime success, the Communists launched an ambitious plan aimed at expanding the economy by 14 percent a year.
160. Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language, skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire.
161. Yet,(http://sentencedict.com/ambitious.html) such an integration would entail a highly ambitious legal and political undertaking.
162. The outward symptoms arose out of Tudor Grange's ambitious expansion programme, which could only be fuelled by borrowings.
163. At the design stage it is easy to be over ambitious.
164. The measurements so far suggest that this will be far too ambitious.
165. Paving slabs are available in a wide variety of shapes, colours and finishes to suit the most ambitious schemes.
166. Throughout his life Charles attracted the young and ambitious to his court.
167. Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage, were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
168. We have now invested £150m in an ambitious upgrading programme of our brewery at St James's Gate in Dublin.
169. Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.
170. Albertina Sisulu Elderly people need to take more time over love-making and be less ambitious.
171. The Harbor Tunnel is one of the most ambitious engineering projects of modern times.
172. In fact, the Soviets were planning an ambitious programme called Zond.
173. Social climbers are prone to telling lies; over- ambitious, greedy, and hedonistic people are more likely to lack honesty and truthfulness. Dr T.P.Chia
174. He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
175. While the system proposed now has a less ambitious goal than Star Wars, the task is still very difficult.
176. Chris is dealing with the commercial aspects of this ambitious project.
177. A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.
178. She was calculating and ambitious, and by all accounts at least a competent journalist.
179. Far too many women are defeated by this supposedly basic rule of motherhood, including the most educated and ambitious.
180. He was still the hard, ambitious man who had married her for her father's company, not for love.
More similar words: ambiguous, exhibition, bumptious, various, obvious, envious, curious, dubious, anxious, previous, officious, oblivious, obviously, vivacious, pugnacious, previously, loquacious, suspicious, mysterious, laboriously, combination, consciousness, subconsciously, edition, addition, position, coalition, tradition, condition, munitions.