aspiring
aspiring adjective: hoping to become. Also the present participle and gerund of aspire.
Adjective
aspiring (not comparable)
- Hoping to become.
- Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
- Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism”, in Anarchism, and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, page 70
Noun
aspiring (plural aspirings)
- Aspiration.
- […] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […]1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXII, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, pages 214–215
- […] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.1750 August 28 (Gregorian calendar), Samuel Johnson, “No. [44]. Friday, August 18. 1750.”, in The Rambler, volume II, Edinburgh: [[…] Sands, Murray, and Cochran]; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J....
Also used as
aspiring is also the present participle and gerund of aspire.
aspiring meaning in Marathi, Gujarati and Nepali
aspiring in Marathi
- आकांक्षी
aspiring in Gujarati
- મહત્વાકાંક્ષી
aspiring in Nepali
- आकांक्षी, आकाङ्क्षी
Examples of aspiring in a sentence
- I am aspiring to leave the nest.
- Another of the victims, Michael Brown, was an aspiring rapper himself and a Lamar fan.
- Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science.
Synonyms of aspiring
Forms of aspiring
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Words formed from aspiring
Words that rhyme with aspiring
Questions about aspiring
- What does aspiring mean?
- Aspiring means hoping to become.
- What is aspiring in Marathi?
- Aspiring in Marathi is आकांक्षी. See Aspiring meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is aspiring?
- Aspiring can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near aspiring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: aspiring (page history and authors); aspiring (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aspiring (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aspiring (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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