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ambitiously en · ADV

Pronunciation

• [ɛəːmˈbɪʃəs.li] (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English ambitious Middle English -ly English -ly English ambitiously From ambitious + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an ambitious manner.
   • The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie. 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 239:
   • Many of New York's most celebrated personalities hitch-hiked here, or rode the rails from wherever it was that they spent their youth dreaming ambitiously. 1956 December 19, Phyllis Battelle, “Poor Commuter's Life Not So Dreadful After All”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 11 May 2009:
   • by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:

Forms

Translations (14)

it ambiziosamente (in an ambitious manner) · pl ambicjonalnie (in an ambitious manner) · sl ambiciozno (in an ambitious manner) · fr ambitieusement (in an ambitious manner) · pl ambitnie (in an ambitious manner) · pt ambiciosamente (in an ambitious manner) · el φιλόδοξα (in an ambitious manner) · es ambiciosamente (in an ambitious manner) · eo ambicie (in an ambitious manner) · ca ambiciosament (in an ambitious manner) · sl podjetno (in an ambitious manner) · gl ambiciosamente (in an ambitious manner) · sh ambiciozno (in an ambitious manner) · fi kunnianhimoisesti (in an ambitious manner)