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Ambitionless

Definition: Ambitionless

Ambitionless

Adjective

1. Having little desire for success or achievement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Ambitionless

Synonym: unambitious (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: ambitious (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Ambitionless

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless (Lady of Burlesque; writing credit: James Gunn; Gypsy Rose Lee)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "Ambitionless"

Words rhyming with "ambitionless" (pronounced 'Am*bi"tion*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Bottomless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ambitionless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-t"

-2 letters: antibioses, assoilment, lanosities, lentissimo, lesbianism, moniliases.

-3 letters: albinisms, alienisms, alienists, alimonies, ambitions, bailments, balminess, binomials, botanises, insolates, libations, limonites, melanists, misatones, mobilises, omissible, semitonal, semolinas, sibilants, sibilates, smaltines, tailbones.

-4 letters: ailments, albinism, alienism, alienist, aliments, ambients, ambition, amitoses, amitosis, amniotes, amosites, anemosis, animists, anisoles, antiboss, astilbes, astonies, atomises, bailment, bailsmen, balmiest, basinets, bassinet.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: subnormalities.

 

+3 letters: indomitableness.

 

+4 letters: compensabilities.

 

+5 letters: demonstrabilities, impressionability, indomitablenesses, monosyllabicities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ambitionless


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 62 69 74 69 6F 6E 6C 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --    -...    ..    -    ..    ---    -.    .-..    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#98 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0062 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E 006C 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357968758675818078718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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