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. Zi Sheng Neoh:

   South Korea will be achieving 17 percent, instead of hitting the 20 percent target but it is indeed very close, south Korea's renewables target is ambitious.

2. The British-based team:

   Bob will act as a technical consultant, applying his considerable industry experience supporting and advising Manor’s senior management as they rebuild the team and formulate an ambitious long term plan.

3. Laurent Fabius:

   All the conditions are in place to have a universal, ambitious final deal, there has never been such a strong momentum.

4. Annie Kazerou:

   From 11.7 million tickets in 2010, they amounted to only 8.9 million last year. This year, even though there was an ambitious start due to some big Hollywood productions, the numbers have dropped.

5. Audrey Powers:

   When you had Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin basically get up there and take civilians into space – and it might have only been an 11-minute ride, but you think about what could happen, there's so many ambitious goals that are coming out of these programs, and Time Magazine named Elon Musk the man of the year. And it's not just because of electric vehicles. … I think that it's much more about the vision and the pioneer spirit and the next frontier, which is space.