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Definition: Ambitiously |
AmbitiouslyAdverb1. In an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ambitiously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AmbitiouslySynonyms: determinedly (adv), with ambition (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unambitiously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ambitiously |
| English words defined with "ambitiously": Trancscendental. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Philip II | O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Ambitiously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambitiously" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ambitiously": over-ambitiously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ambitiously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 雄心勃勃地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ambitieux (ambitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ehrgeizig (ambitious, aspiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ambizioso (ambitious, aspiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 야심 있. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ambitiouslyay ambiciosamente. (various references) честолюбиво (aspiringly). (various references) ambiciosamente. (various references) честолюбно. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ambitiously" (pronounced ambi"shuslē) |
| 6 | -i" sh u s l ē | capriciously, deliciously, expeditiously, judiciously, maliciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, viciously. |
| 5 | -sh u s l ē | anxiously, cautiously, consciously, facetiously, fallaciously, ferociously, graciously, hellaciously, ostentatiously, subconsciously, tenaciously, unconsciously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, anonymously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, conscientiously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, fabulously, famously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, synonymously, tediously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-o-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: ambitious, suability, sublimity, usability. | |
-3 letters: bailouts, botulism, bulimias, misbuilt, mobility, myoblast, solatium, suitably, taboulis. | |
-4 letters: ability, bailout, bilious, bulimia, layouts, mistily, moistly, mousily, mustily, mutably, oblasti, outlays, outsail, somital, stibial, stibium, stimuli, subatom, symbiot, tabouli, tabulis, timbals, tymbals, ultimas. | |
-5 letters: aiolis, albums, alibis, aliyos, aliyot, almost, ambits, asylum, autism, bayous, bialis, bialys, biotas, blasty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-o-s-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: commensurability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 62 69 74 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -... .. - .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m b i t i o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0062 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579687586758187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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