ambitiously

ambitious | American Dictionary

ambitious
adjective
us/æmˈbɪʃ·əs/
having a strong desire for success, achievement, power, or wealth:
Even as a young man he was ambitious and self-assured.
If you describe an activity as ambitious, you mean that it involves a lot of effort or expense:
It was an ambitious project to restore the public parks.

ambitious | Business English

ambitious
adjective
uk /æmˈbɪʃəs/us
having a strong wish to be successful:
an ambitious young lawyer
I make no secret of the fact that I am very ambitious.
if a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved:
The retailer announced ambitious plans yesterday as it reported profits up 19%.
The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network.
Their goals proved to be a little too ambitious.

ambitiously

adverb/æmˈbɪʃəsli/
The company had expanded ambitiously into Europe.

Examples of ambitious

ambitious
In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitious effort, the pages bear witness to a conflict.
The book is ambitious in its scope and range.
If our definition is more complex and ambitious, there is room to argue that democracy has yet to be consolidated.
In such an ambitious and wide-ranging enterprise, sins of omission and commission are inevitable.
As we identified, a group of the dissidents may be composed of three different types: ambitious juniors, mid-career policy seekers and antagonistic seniors.
Nonetheless, the committee was nothing if not ambitious.
In contrast to the ambitious scale of the house building programme the dominant approach to implementation was distinctly conservative.
A more ambitious and practically necessary approach would be to take into account how particular ontological axioms are mapped as well.
As is increasingly common in ambitious projects of this nature, the published book is merely the tip of the iceberg.
What the book intends to cover is therefore quite ambitious.
His account of signs is an ambitious one, encompassing forms of communication is diverse as language, music and the visual arts.
Nevertheless, this is an ambitious and valuable volume.
The book is generous with its data and ambitious in its aims but possibly over-stretched in its methodology.
The goal is commendable and ambitious, but is not fully attained in the present volume.
The scale of men's operations tends to be more ambitious than women's.
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