Word definition: 'ambitious' • Lucid Lexicon

ambitious

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of ambitious

from Latin ambitio "desire for/currying favor/popularity, flattery; pomp; vote canvassing"

amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go")

1340, ambicioun "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment"

ambitious adjective

of ambits; imbued with qualities typical of an ambit

strongly desirous
springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring

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Specific examples and quotes of ambitious

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

by Banksy

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