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overambitious

overambitious adjective: excessively ambitious.

Adjective

overambitious (not comparable)

  1. Excessively ambitious.
    • The Hyperwebster is an overambitious work that provides a complete list of all words in the form of every possible combination of letters of any finite length.Spring 2022, Mats Wahlberg, “The Banach-Tarski Paradox”, in Umeå University, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2022, page 24

Origin of overambitious

From over- + ambitious.

Words formed from overambitious

Questions about overambitious

What does overambitious mean?
Overambitious means excessively ambitious.
What part of speech is overambitious?
Overambitious is an adjective.

Words near overambitious in the dictionary

  1. overallotment
  2. overallotments
  3. overalls
  4. overally
  5. overambition
  6. overambitious
  7. overambitiously
  8. overambitiousness
  9. overamp
  10. overamped
  11. overamperage

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