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aspirational

UK/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/

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Australia/ˌæspəˈɹæɪʃənəl/

aspirational adjective: being ambitious.

Adjective

aspirational (comparative more aspirational, superlative most aspirational)

  1. Being ambitious.
    • In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022
  2. Desiring success.
  3. Expressing a hope or intention but not creating a legally binding obligation.

Noun

aspirational (plural aspirationals)

  1. A person with aspirations.

aspirational meaning in Malayalam

aspirational in Malayalam

അർത്ഥിത, അർത്ഥിതമായ, ആശിക്കുന്ന

Examples of aspirational in a sentence

  • Relatable is to TikTok what aspirational was to Instagram—its most salient, sought-after quality.
  • They engage in self-branding techniques that present traditional, white, male-dominated values as desirable and aspirational.
  • Rather, they are aspirational technological dreamware that defer immediate and sustained action on emissions.

All 10 example sentences with aspirational

Forms of aspirational

Adjective
comparativemore aspirational
superlativemost aspirational
Noun
pluralaspirationals

Origin of aspirational

From aspiration + -al.

Words formed from aspirational

Questions about aspirational

What does aspirational mean?
Aspirational means being ambitious.
What is aspirational in Malayalam?
Aspirational in Malayalam is അർത്ഥിത, അർത്ഥിതമായ, ആശിക്കുന്ന. See Aspirational meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is aspirational?
Aspirational can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce aspirational?
Aspirational is pronounced /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/ (UK).

Words near aspirational in the dictionary

  1. aspirated
  2. aspirated h
  3. aspirates
  4. aspirating
  5. aspiration
  6. aspirational
  7. aspirational recycling
  8. aspirationalism
  9. aspirationally
  10. aspirationals
  11. aspirations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aspirational (page history and authors); aspirational (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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