ambitiously


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am·bi·tious

 (ăm-bĭsh′əs)
adj.
1. Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.
2. Greatly desirous; eager: "I am not ambitious of ridicule" (Edmund Burke).
3. Requiring or showing much effort; challenging: an ambitious schedule.

am·bi′tious·ly adv.
am·bi′tious·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.ambitiously - with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously"
unambitiously - in an unambitious manner; "he does his job, but he works unambitiously"
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Translations
بِطُموح شَدِيد
ctižádostivěnáročně
kunnianhimoisesti
ambiciozno
becsvágyóannagyratörően
gayretlehevesle

ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] ADVambiciosamente
a book ambitiously titledun libro con el ambicioso título de ...
next Keith will ambitiously attempt to name all Shakespeare's plays in two minutesahora Keith llevará a cabo su ambicioso intento de nombrar todas las obras de Shakespeare en dos minutos
he decided, perhaps rather ambitiously, to build the extension himselfdecidió, quizás sobrevalorando sus posibilidades or intentando abarcar demasiado, construir la extensión él mismo
he had ambitiously hoped to finish the job in a monthhabía esperado poder terminar el trabajo en un mes, lo que era mucho esperar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəsli] adv [attempt, promise, plan] → ambitieusement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ambitiously

advvoll(er) Ehrgeiz, ehrgeizig; rather ambitiously, we set out to prove the followingwir hatten uns das ehrgeizige Ziel gesteckt, das Folgende zu beweisen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] advambiziosamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ambition

(ӕmˈbiʃən) noun
1. the desire for success, fame, power etc. He is full of ambition and energy.
2. the desire eventually to become or do something special. His ambition is to be Prime Minister.
amˈbitious adjective
He is very ambitious; That plan is too ambitious.
amˈbitiously adverb
amˈbitiousness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
"Love never made a law so cruel, a law that would rob true lovers of each other's society for a whole month in a year, stretching them on the rack of absence--" There my period broke down, so I began another less ambitiously planned.
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe.
The life that was in me was constituted to do what my father did, and it whispered to me secretly and ambitiously of aerial paths and forest flights.
They even planned ambitiously some day when they were disgracefully prosperous, to ride all the way up to Daylight's boyhood home in Eastern Oregon, stopping on the way at Dede's girlhood home in Siskiyou.
"I now look back upon my aspiring thoughts," he said, "and think myself more happy than if I had attained what I so ambitiously thirsted for.
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
It was he who snarled warningly at the younger members of the pack or slashed at them with his fangs when they ambitiously tried to pass him.
Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political-- as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant--was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr.
"The five members form a dream team that JYP ambitiously launches for this new year," the agency said.
Aslam said: 'We are loyal Pakistanis and want durable peace with India to which New Delhi must respond positively and ambitiously.'
Sahito has ambitiously come to University and with our mutual effort and blessing of Almighty Allah, she could pursue her dreams.