Crossword-Solution: AMBITIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ambitious | a. | Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. |
| Ambitious | a. | Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. |
| Ambitious | a. | Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. |
We have 46 clues for the answer “AMBITIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Yet Brutus says he was ___" | 1 answer |
| having a strong desire for success or achievement | 1 answer |
| having a strong desire for success | 1 answer |
| Desiring success | 1 answer |
| Eager to advance. | 1 answer |
| Status-seeking | 1 answer |
| emulous | 2 answers |
| think big | 3 answers |
| Goal-oriented | 3 answers |
| wishful | 11 answers |
| princely | 15 answers |
| Aspiring | 16 answers |
| BALL OF FIRE | 17 answers |
| Hanker-ing | 18 answers |
| envying | 20 answers |
| venturesome | 23 answers |
| LONGING for | 24 answers |
| COSMIC ___ | 34 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| grandiose | 38 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| Royal ___ | 41 answers |
| "Epic!" | 41 answers |
| lordly | 43 answers |
| AUGUST , | 46 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Enterprising | 49 answers |
| Industrious | 51 answers |
| adventurous | 52 answers |
| Stately | 54 answers |
| Utopian | 61 answers |
| hopeful | 62 answers |
| Diligent. | 63 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
| Craving | 69 answers |
| Energetic | 72 answers |
| Aggressive | 73 answers |
| Lofty | 73 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
| Ardent | 75 answers |
| Eager | 79 answers |
| Bold | 82 answers |
| Keen | 86 answers |
| Visionary | 93 answers |
| High | 116 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMBITIOUS (5)
The happier state In Heav’n, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain? where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From Faction; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
The Collor government, which assumed office in March 1990, is embarked on an ambitious reform program that seeks to modernize and reinvigorate the economy by stabilizing prices, deregulating the economy, and opening it to increased foreign competition.
The club had decided to put on “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” a very ambitious undertaking because of the many supers needed and the scenic difficulties of the act which took place in Andersonville Prison.
And was it not for her sake far more than for his own that he desired its success? That lost parchment once restored, the beautiful Alice Pyncheon, with the rich dowry which he could then bestow, might wed an English duke or a German reigning-prince, instead of some New England clergyman or lawyer! At the thought, the ambitious father almost consented, in his heart, that, if the devil’s power were needed to the accomplishment of this great object, Maule might evoke him.
His strong, almost overbearing ego and over developed sense of worth and importance were relegated to a personality quirk common to superbright ambitious engineering types.
Quotes with AMBITIOUS (3)
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with it a flourishing civilization and a glorious golden age. Given how far back it stretches in time, the history of the region -- and even of Iraq itself -- is too big a canvas for me to paint. Instead, what I hope to do in this boo…
I'm not saying that I think one man is better than the other. I'm not saying that either is kinder or wiser or more ambitious, more thoughtful, confident, or able. But the fact is that when I'm with the one, comfort settles into my bones. I feel calm around him, as if the sun is smiling down on me and the world has suddenly become a sweet, safe place to be. I feel good about life―about myself. And it's hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2010).