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The definition of ambitious is to be very driven, eager and motivated.

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An example of someone ambitious is someone who sets a goal to break a world record.

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See ambitious in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

full of or showing ambition
greatly desirous (of something); eager for
demanding great effort, skill, enterprise, etc.: an ambitious undertaking

Origin: ME ambicious < L ambitiosus, seeking favor < ambitio: see ambition

Related Forms:

ambitiously adverb

See ambitious in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.
Greatly desirous; eager: “I am not ambitious of ridicule” (Edmund Burke).
Requiring or showing much effort; challenging: an ambitious schedule.

Related Forms:

am·biˈtious·ly adverb

am·biˈtious·ness noun

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