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| Main Entry: | ambitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring success |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, anxious, ardent, aspiring, avid, come on, designing, desirous, determined, driving, eager, eager beaver*, earnest, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, hopeful, hungry, industrious, inspired, intent, longing, purposeful, pushing, pushy*, resourceful, sharp, soaring, striving, thirsty, vaulting, zealous, ball of fire, bent upon, climbing, come on strong, fireball, get up and go, go-getter, goal-oriented, hard ball, high-reaching, power-loving, self-starting |
| Antonyms: | content, fulfilled, satisfied, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ambitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | requiring great effort, ability |
| Synonyms: | arduous, bold, demanding, difficult, elaborate, energetic, exacting, formidable, grandiose, hard, impressive, industrious, lofty, pretentious, severe, strenuous, visionary, challenging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile |
| Main Entry: | aspiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeful |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, aspirant, eager, eager beaver*, enthusiastic, impassioned, longing, striving, wishful, would-be, zealous, endeavoring, on the make |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | competitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing to oppose |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, ambitious, antagonistic, combative, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog*, killer*, opposing, rival, at odds, competing, emulous, killer instinct, streetwise, vying |
| Antonyms: | noncompetitive, unambitious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho*, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resourceful, energetic |
| Synonyms: | active, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead*, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, keen, lively, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, up-and-coming*, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy*, advancing, coming on strong, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, itching, lusting, self-starting, take-over |
| Antonyms: | inactive, passive, unimaginative, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | go-ahead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | progressive |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, enterprising, up-and-coming*, entrepreneurial, go-getting, gumptious, pioneering |
| Antonyms: | vetoed, denied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandiose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theatrical, extravagant |
| Synonyms: | affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic, flamboyant, fustian, grand, high-falutin', high-flown, imposing, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, overwhelming, pompous, pretentious, purple*, royal, showy, splashy, stately, unfathomable, vast |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, small, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, offensive |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, assertive, bold, brash, bumptious, forceful, loud, militant, obnoxious, obtrusive, officious, presumptuous, pushing, self-assertive, pushful |
| Antonyms: | modest, quiet, shy, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | up-and-coming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rising |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, determined, eager, enterprising, hungry, promising, soaring, striving, climbing, coming on strong, get up and go, go-getter, high-reaching, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary, arcadian, ideological, pie-in-the-sky |
| Antonyms: | real |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed*, unreal, unrealistic, unworldly, utopian, delusory, in the clouds, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wishful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, aspiring, craving, daydreaming, desiring, greedy, hankering, hopeful, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, wishing, yearning, longful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | would-be |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wishful, wannabe |
| Main Entry: | driven |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compelled |
| Synonyms: | Type A*, ambitious, compulsive, directed, forced, induced, obsessed, possessed, consumed, galvanized, guided, herded, impelled, monomaniacal, motivated, pushed, steered, urged on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pushing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, forward, intrusive, presuming, pushy* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard on someone; hard to do |
| Synonyms: | Gargantuan*, Herculean*, ambitious, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, crucial, demanding, exacting, formidable, galling, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, painful, problem, problematic, prohibitive, rigid, severe, stiff, strenuous, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, wearisome, backbreaker, challenging, difficile, easier said than done, effortful, hard-won, no picnic, not easy, upstream |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, free, manageable, plain, simple, uncomplicated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grand |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressive, great |
| Synonyms: | admirable, ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, dignified, dynamite, elevated, eminent, exalted, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, glorious, grandiose, haughty, illustrious, imposing, large, lofty, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, marvelous, monumental, noble, opulent, ostentatious, outstanding, palatial, pompous, pretentious, regal, rich, splendid, stately, striking, sublime, sumptuous, super, superb, terrific, unreal, fab, smashing, something else, very good |
| Antonyms: | bad, common, low, paltry, poor, unimpressive |
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