UNAMBITIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unambitious mean? 

• UNAMBITIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective UNAMBITIOUS has 1 sense:

1. having little desire for success or achievement

  Familiarity information: UNAMBITIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAMBITIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having little desire for success or achievement

Synonyms:

ambitionless; unambitious

Similar:

shiftless (lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy)

Also:

nonenterprising; unenterprising (lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome)

Attribute:

ambition; ambitiousness (a strong drive for success)

Antonym:

ambitious (having a strong desire for success or achievement)

 Context examples 

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)