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ambitious
Synonyms and Antonyms of ambitious
1
having a strong desire for personal advancement
determined, diligent, driving, dynamic, enterprising, gung ho, hungry, hustling, industrious, motivated, scrappy, venturesome, venturous
ardent, avid, eager, energetic, impassioned, keen, raring, vigorous
aggressive, assertive, high-flying, opportunistic, overambitious, pretentious, pushy, self-assertive
2
having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, disputatious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike
hyperaggressive, overambitious
dynamic, energetic, enterprising, gung ho, hustling, strenuous, vigorous
adventuresome, adventurous, daring, dashing, emboldened, gutsy, venturesome, venturous
audacious, bold, brash, brassy, bumptious, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, confident, determined, forward, impudent, insolent, overconfident, presumptuous, unapologetic, unsubdued, unyielding
bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), feisty, scrappy
dominating, domineering, imperious, lordly, magisterial, overbearing
acquiescent, amenable, compliant, deferential, docile, resigned, submissive, tractable, yielding
cowering, cringing, groveling (or grovelling), shrinking
bashful, demure, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, mild, modest, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
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