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Definition: Overambitious |
OverambitiousAdjective1. Excessively ambitious. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Overambitious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Overambitious" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "overambitious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | zu ehrgeizig, übertrieben (camp, exaggerated, exaggeratedly, excessive, extravagant, fulsome, ham, hyperbolical, inflated, inordinately, overdone, overpraise, undue, unduly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 야망이 넘치". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | overambitiousay quá nhiều tham vọng. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "overambitious": overambitiousness, overambitiousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overambitious" (pronounced ō"verambi'shus) |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, pernicious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-m-o-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-3 letters: obituaries, vomitories. | |
-4 letters: ambitious, ambiverts, broomiest, obtrusive, obviators, outbraves. | |
-5 letters: abortive, aerobium, airtimes, ambivert, amortise, atomiser, autosome, barmiest, bevomits, biramose, biramous, boomiest, bouviers, bromates, imbrutes, misroute, moisture, mooriest, motorbus, motorise, muriates, obviates, obviator, outbeams, outbrave, outmoves, outraise, outraves, outsavor, ovaritis, resubmit, ribosome, robotism, roomiest, saboteur, sautoire, seriatim, subovate, tambours, tearooms, terbiums, timorous, tiramisu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-m-o-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+4 letters: overambitiousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 61 6D 62 69 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r a m b i t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0061 006D 0062 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49887184677968758675818785 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 독일, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 트남, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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