Adjective: ambitious am'bi-shus
- Having a strong desire for success or achievement
"The Group of Eight rich nations will likely agree to an ambitious target for cutting greenhouse costs";
- aspirational
- Requiring full use of your abilities or resources
"ambitious schedule";
- challenging
See also: ambition, ambitiousness, aspirant, aspiring, compulsive, determined, difficult, driven, enterprising, go-getting [informal], hard, manqué, overambitious, pushful, pushy, wishful, would-be
Antonym: ambitionless
Encyclopedia: Ambitious