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ambitionless

adjective

Definition of ambitionlessnext
as in lazy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambitionless
  1. lazy
  2. shiftless
  3. apathetic
  4. indolent
  5. listless
  6. slothful
  7. languorous
  8. lethargic
Adjective
  • But whereas The Holdovers’s Paul Hunham despises his lazy, pampered students, The Debut’s Jerry Blankenbuehler has a determination to summon theatrical magic out of his meager cast.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In places at low to moderate risk of fire, along the edges of flat valleys and lazy hills, growth in the FAIR Plan is ballooning, and it is being used to underwrite new suburban development.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of lazy
Adjective
  • Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • After the volunteers slink back to Paddy’s, the most shiftless person on campus will once again be Principal Coleman (Janelle James), whose ineptitude and vanity don’t prevent her from advocating for the students from time to time.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of shiftless
Adjective
  • While Hocevar may have been apathetic Sunday about the incident, Keselowski wasn’t.
    — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In the last 25 years, the American electorate has become more polarized, distrustful, and apathetic.
    — Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of apathetic
Adjective
  • Screenings in healthy adults are also more likely to catch indolent disease, meaning slow-growing or static conditions, than aggressive ones.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Possibly a deepening and widening of populist politics, as both the far right and the far left win over more of the allegedly indolent youth.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of indolent
Adjective
  • In her final years, disappointed visitors reportedly threw sand into her cage to try to make the listless bird move, as author Joel Greenberg recounted to National Geographic.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Behind, a frieze of listless, phallus-dragging men and affable, gabbing women cross the horizon.
    — Walker Mimms, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of listless
Adjective
  • Holes left lying around for even the most slothful of AI are just begging for an easy AI escape.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • That they would be regarded as slothful morons who aren't worth the price of a ticket of admission.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2026
Definition of slothful
Adjective
  • She should still be blamed for giving in to the allure of billboards ten feet tall with languorous models.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Byblos Beach is for languorous lunches; La Réserve à la Plage for understated chic; Loulou Ramatuelle for Parisians-en-vacances chic; and Jardin Tropézina for White Lotus buzz.
    — Lanie Goodman, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of languorous
Adjective
  • The national committee has faced a host of criticism from other Democrats for its lethargic fundraising, including calls for DNC Chair Ken Martin to step down that have so far gone unheeded.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The show was also horribly paced, with way too many pointless instrumental spotlights that somehow managed to come across as both showy and lethargic at the same time.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of lethargic
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