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ambitionless

ambitionless adjective: without ambition or motivation.

Adjective

ambitionless (comparative more ambitionless, superlative most ambitionless)

  1. Without ambition or motivation
    • Many earnest persons believe that the cessation of individual ownership in the means of production would leave the people in a hopeless, ambitionless, and dejected condition- would deprive them of initiative and thrift.1906, James MacKaye, The Economy of Happiness, →ISBN, page 516

Forms of ambitionless

comparativemore ambitionless
superlativemost ambitionless

Origin of ambitionless

From ambition + -less.

Words formed from ambitionless

Questions about ambitionless

What does ambitionless mean?
Ambitionless means without ambition or motivation.
What part of speech is ambitionless?
Ambitionless is an adjective.

Words near ambitionless in the dictionary

  1. ambitionists
  2. ambitionize
  3. ambitionized
  4. ambitionizes
  5. ambitionizing
  6. ambitionless
  7. ambitionlessly
  8. ambitionlessness
  9. ambitions
  10. ambitious
  11. ambitiouser

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