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Definition: Unambitious |
UnambitiousAdjective1. Having little desire for success or achievement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unambitious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonym: UnambitiousSynonym: ambitionless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ambitious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indifference | Adjective: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted. |
Insensibility | Unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci; unambitious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unambitious |
| English words defined with "unambitious": unambitiously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unambitious": Pickles. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They say it's a lucky or an unambitious man who goes when he's ready. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Unambitious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unambitious" is used about 36 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% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unambitious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, demure, frugal, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), неамбициозен (unaspiring), непретенциозен (comfortable, humble, modest, unaspiring, unassuming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anspruchslos (downmarket, homely, low brow, lowbrow, modest, plain, simple, unassuming, unassumingly, undemanding, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unpretending, unpretendingly, unpretentious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωρίσ φιλοδοξίεσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem törtető, nem nagyravágyó (unaspiring), nem nagyra törő, nem becsvágyó, kisigényű. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn gloyrvian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ambitiousunay нечестолюбивый (unaspiring). (various references) neslavoljubiv, neambiciozan (unaspiring). (various references) utan äregirighet, anspråkslös (humble, informal, lowly, modest, quiet, unassuming, unpretentious). (various references) không ham muốn (undesirous, unsolicitous), không có tham vọng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gracilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-m-n-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: bituminous. | |
-2 letters: ambitions, ambitious. | |
-3 letters: ambition, bimanous, manitous, mutinous, niobiums, tinamous. | |
-4 letters: amounts, animist, autobus, autumns, bastion, biotins, bonitas, intimas, intombs, ioniums, manitos, manitou, manitus, minibus, minutia, nimious, niobium, numbats, obtains, omnibus, outmans, santimi, stibium, subatom, subunit, tinamou, tsunami. | |
-5 letters: ambits, amnios, amount, animis, animus, ausubo, autism, autumn, basion, batons, binits, bionts, biotas, biotin, bonita. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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