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. Innes Willox:

   The current international border setting is virtually no-one-in and no-one-out, this needs to give way to a more sensible position and a much more ambitious border opening goal than the July 2022 target currently adopted by the Federal Government.

2. Alok Sharma:

   This report is clear : ambitious climate action can avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, but only if all nations act together, those nations which have submitted new and ambitious climate plans are already bending the curve of emissions downwards by 2030.

3. Charles Krauthammer:

   If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

4. Change Minister Catherine McKenna:

   But I don't like just looking at one particular development. We are looking at how we are going to make progress toward a low-carbon economy. We are going to be looking at a whole range of solutions so that we ... have an ambitious, pan-Canadian plan to do our part.

5. State John Kerry:

   First, we have agreed to accelerate and expand the delivery of humanitarian aid beginning immediately, second, we have agreed to implement a nationwide cessation of hostilities to begin in a target of one week's time. That's ambitious, but everybody is determined to move as rapidly as possible to try to achieve this.

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