ambitious

Adjective complement with noun phrase

try: This is important: don't try something wildly ambitious that then fails to deliver.

Modifies a noun

• target: The clock is still ticking on the Government's ambitious target to halve child poverty by 2010.
• plan: Many of the world's airlines have embarked on ambitious growth plans.
• goal: Use the personal independence granted to you by working with us for our ambitious goals.
• agenda: The company led by its Managing Director, Roger Johnson, has a highly ambitious agenda of growth over the next decade.
• undertaking: However, many of us don't have the skills or the time to manage such an ambitious undertaking.
• project: Opening up the services market is an ambitious project.

Modifying Another Word

• overly: I remember my own experience of staggering along under my overly ambitious pack.
• hugely: The EC felt the need to launch the hugely ambitious Financial Services Action Plan in 1999 to push the process forward.
• ruthlessly: The author portrayed Barnard as a ' ruthlessly ambitious, manipulative womanizer obsessed with money ' .
• wildly: This is important: don't try something wildly ambitious that then fails to deliver.
• fiercely: However, fiercely ambitious and determined, it did not take long for Thomas to find a new way to occupy himself.
• impressively: John Irving - A Widow For One Year Some of this is impressively ambitious, detailed, witty and ingenious.

Infinitive complement

try: The budget was a lot but it's ambitious to try and make a film abroad.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
• prove: Early ideas to use Newsgroups or On Line Conferencing Software have proved too ambitious.
• become: However, our efforts to stabilize the climate will need, over time, to become far more ambitious than the Kyoto Protocol.
• feel: You can even write your own, should you feel ambitious!
• get: But as he gets more ambitious, a bust stops Jung temporarily.

Preposition: in

scope: The study was ambitious in scope, involving two complementary phases.