Antonyms for ambitious
æmˈbɪʃ əsam·bi·tious

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1. ambitiousadjective

   having a strong desire for success or achievement

   Antonyms:
   shiftless, easy, unambitious, ambitionless

   Synonyms:
   challenging

2. ambitious, challengingadjective

   requiring full use of your abilities or resources

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

   Antonyms:
   unambitious, shiftless, ambitionless, easy

   Synonyms:
   challenging, intriguing, thought-provoking

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1. ambitiousadjective

   Antonyms:
   unambitious, indifferent

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

How to use ambitious in a sentence?

1. Richard Black:

   It’s critical Britain sets a clear pathway of action to lead the fight against climate change, and this confirmation of an ambitious NDC is an important step on that journey.

2. Alden Meyer:

   Just like every other country, this is a goal — it's aspirational, it's a fairly ambitious objective, especially if you assume that they're not going to get any help from Congress.

3. 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.

4. Jason Zinoman:

   They're trying to do something other places have tried to do and failed, which is to make comedy go global, and the common wisdom for a long time, which I don't necessarily believe is true, is that comedy, unlike action, doesn't travel particularly well. I think that is incredibly ambitious and it has high risk, and I think any way you cut it, it's going to change people's relationship to Netflix comedy.

5. 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.

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