Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ambitious
IPA transcription: [æmb'ɪʃəs]
Pronunciations of ambitious
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ambitious
    Meaning: having a strong desire for success or achievement
  • Synonyms: ambitious, challenging
    Meaning: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"
Usage examples
  • "I am not ambitious."
  • He started at the word "ambitious." He repeated, "No.
  • "Well, if you are not ambitious, you are--" He paused.
  • Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one!
  • Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes
  • Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest?
  • I never confided to him my schemes for amusement as a boy, or mentioned more than generally my ambitious hopes, as a young man.
  • Of course, all her ambitious aspirations were now forever extinguished, and the last gleam of earthly hope faded away from her mind.
  • Moreover, they regarded the German imperial government as an autocratic power wielded in the interest of an ambitious military party.
  • But Michael VI. was grown aged and incompetent, and the empire was full of ambitious generals, who would not tolerate a dotard on the throne.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Song of Innocence, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording World War I, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bintulu, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of the Middle East, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Smashing Pumpkins, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bona Sforza, License CC BY-SA 4.0