Synonyms and Antonyms of ambitious
- an ambitious child actor and his even more ambitious mother, who will do anything to get him in commercials
determined, diligent, driving, dynamic, enterprising, gung ho, hungry, hustling, industrious, motivated, scrappy, venturesome, venturous
ardent, avid, eager, energetic, impassioned, keen, raring, vigorous
aggressive, assertive, high-flying, opportunistic, overambitious, pretentious, pushy, self-assertive
- cleaning up the vacant lot in one weekend was an ambitious undertaking
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, disputatious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike
hyperaggressive, overambitious
dynamic, energetic, enterprising, gung ho, hustling, strenuous, vigorous
adventuresome, adventurous, daring, dashing, emboldened, gutsy, venturesome, venturous
audacious, bold, brash, brassy, bumptious, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, confident, determined, forward, impudent, insolent, overconfident, presumptuous, unapologetic, unsubdued, unyielding
bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), feisty, scrappy
dominating, domineering, imperious, lordly, magisterial, overbearing