unambitious

adjective

un·​am·​bi·​tious ˌən-am-ˈbi-shəs 

: feeling or showing a lack of ambition : not ambitious

unambitious teenagers

lives a quiet, unambitious life in retirement

Examples of unambitious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Clearly, this was a bit wordy, so this became ‘parking the bus’, which initially found popularity as an insult for unambitious football, then later was used in a more neutral manner to mean deep defending. —Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025

Has this embarrassment of visual riches guaranteed that any story told on a smaller canvas is doomed to feel unambitious in comparison? —Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025

Advertisement Advertisement Se-ri’s plan to straighten her hair (and fix her life) finds new focus with the arrival of Han Yun-seok (Mercy For None’s Gong Myung), a quiet, seemingly unambitious transfer student from Seoul whose mother, Baek Jang-mi (Hong Eun-hee), happens to be a hair stylist. —Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Aug. 2025

The county plan quickly ran into concerted opposition from playhouse fans and some cultural figures who called its intimate new auditorium small and unambitious and demanded instead an alternative plan calling for a full restoration capable of handling big Broadway-style shows. —Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unambitious

• supposititious
• adventitious
• cementitious
• expeditious
• inauspicious
• injudicious
• meretricious
• repetitious
• superstitious
• surreptitious
• unpropitious
• unsuspicious