Ambition

Noun

 * 1) An eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
 * 2) The purported pathway to a chosen career.
 * 3) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
 * 4) A four-player card game of tricks played mainly in North America, Europe, and Japan.

Adjectives for Ambition
forceful; unbounded; misplaced; personal; warring (plural); criminal; abstracted; reason; able; social; ancestral; uninstructed; worthy;  unquenchable; industrial;  average; grandiose; sole; thick-sighted; racial; lofty; cherished; lifelong; thwarted;  worldly; vaulting; vain; conflicting (plural); daring; unprincipled;  insane; intense;  unbridled; noisy; darling;  foiled; primary; disquieting; peculiar; fierce; humble; honorable; wandering; moderate; sensible; imperial; kingly;  persistent; mad; tremendous; sublime; soaring; disappointed; desultory; insatiable; absurd; unreined; corrupt; beastly; misdirected; undying; healthy; satisfied; blind; august; youthful; vulgar; inordinate;  life-ruling; troublous; sinister; irreconcilable; political; odious; crushed; tacit; impassioned;  private; unscrupulous; persevering;  senile; exalted;  praiseworthy; modern; resolute; aggressive; consuming; gnawing;  spurring;  boastful;  indiscreet; petty; visionary; conceited; dictatorial; egotistical;  dynastic;  abjured;  hypertrophied; latent;   innate; undeviating; tempered; boundless; distempered; focalized.

Verbs for Ambition
achieve-; attain-; badger-; breed-; characterize-; cherish-; chill-; choke with-; commend-; cultivate-; derive-; display-; endow with-; extinguish-; feed with-; fulfill-; gratify-;  hamper-; infect with-; inspire-; nurse-; realize-; reawaken-; satisfy-; stifle-; subordinate-; temper -; thwart -; whet -; - burns; -s conflict; - emboldens; - lures; - overleaps itself; - pushes; - soars; - suffers; - vaults.

Synonyms for Ambition
aspiration, goal, end, striving, attempting, competition, desire, attainment, eagerness.

Antonyms for Ambition
indifference, nonfulfillment, laziness, satisfaction, contentment.

Thesaurus
motive; nirvana; nisus; object; objective; plan; plum; point; power-hunger; pretension; principle; prize; project; proposal; prospectus; purpose; push; reason; resolution; resolve; sake; score; social climbing; source; spirit; spring; spur; status-seeking; striving; study; target; temptation; thirst; trophy; ulterior motive; vaulting ambition; view; vigor; vocation; will; wish; zeal, aim; ambitiousness; animus; anxiety; appetite; aspiration; avidity; basis; calling; careerism; catch; cause; climbing; consideration; counsel; craving; dearest wish; desideration; desideratum; design; desire; determination; dream; drive; eagerness; effect; energy; enterprise; enthusiasm; fancy; fixed purpose; forbidden fruit; function; get-up-and-go; glimmering goal; go-ahead; goad; goal; golden vision; ground; guiding light; guiding star; hope; hunger; idea; ideal; incentive; initiative; inspiration; intendment; intent; intention; keenness; lodestar; lodestone; lofty ambition; magnanimity; magnet; mainspring; mark; matter; meaning; mind;

Related terms

 * ambience
 * ambient
 * ambit
 * ambitious
 * ambitionist