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overambitious en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English ambitious English overambitious From over- + ambitious.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Excessively ambitious.
    • The Hyperwebster is an overambitious work that provides a complete list of all words in the form of every possible combination of letters of any finite length. Spring 2022, Mats Wahlberg, “The Banach-Tarski Paradox”, in Umeå University, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2022, page 24:

Deriveds

overambitiously · overambitiousness

Relateds

overambition

Translations (5)

es sobreambicioso (excessively ambitious) · ga aindréimeach (excessively ambitious) · nn overambisiøs (excessively ambitious) · es rampante (excessively ambitious) · nb overambisiøs (excessively ambitious)