Definition of ambitious

"ambitious" in the adjective sense

1. ambitious

having a strong desire for success or achievement

2. ambitious, challenging

requiring full use of your abilities or resources

"ambitious schedule"

"performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

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Quotations for ambitious

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! [ Spenser ]

Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VI ]

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. [ Carlyle ]

The ambitious do not belong to themselves: they are the slaves of the world.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. [ Wm. Penn ]

He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out - a quality few esteem, and fewer aim at. [ Hare ]

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]

ambitious in Scrabble®

The word ambitious is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters ambitious:

AMBITIOUS
(126)
AMBITIOUS
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

iambist

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word ambitious

AMBITIOUS
(126)
AMBITIOUS
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AMBITIOUS
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(16)
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(15)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In ambitious

AMBITIOUS
(126)
AMBITIOUS
(126)
IAMBIST
(94 = 44 + 50)
IAMBIST
(92 = 42 + 50)
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(92 = 42 + 50)
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AMBITIOUS
(84)
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ambitious in Words With Friends™

The word ambitious is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters ambitious:

AMBITIOUS
(180)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

iambist

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word ambitious

AMBITIOUS
(180)
AMBITIOUS
(108)
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(108)
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(80)
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(78)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In ambitious

AMBITIOUS
(180)
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(108)
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(108)
IAMBIST
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AMBITIOUS
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(78)
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(78)
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(78)
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AMBITIOUS
(72)
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(69)
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(69)
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(68)
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(66)
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AMBITS
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(60)
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(60)
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Words within the letters of ambitious

2 letter words in ambitious (15 words)

6 letter words in ambitious (7 words)

7 letter words in ambitious (1 word)

9 letter words in ambitious (1 word)

ambitious + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence ambitious

Words that start with ambitious (3 words)

Words with ambitious in them (4 words)

Words that end with ambitious (3 words)

Word Growth involving ambitious

Shorter words in ambitious

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Longer words containing ambitious

ambitiously overambitiously

ambitiously unambitiously

ambitiousness unambitiousness

overambitious overambitiously

unambitious unambitiously

unambitious unambitiousness