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# ambitious

«ambitious» in Mova's school dictionary: **wanting very much to succeed, to be great, or to gain power** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more ambitious, most ambitious)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ambitious means wanting very much to succeed, to be great, or to gain power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/#m1)

2) An ambitious plan is one that is big and hard to carry out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a character who wants power or a throne; in school, an ambitious project is a large task

### examples

- The ambitious tailor wanted to be a prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/#x1)
- Eteocles was an ambitious prince who seized the throne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/#x2)
- We have an ambitious plan to build a model town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ambitious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ambitious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.