Meanings
comparative more ambitionless · superlative most ambitionless
- Without ambition or motivation
Many earnest persons believe that the cessation of individual ownership in the means of production would leave the people in a hopeless, ambitionless, and dejected condition- would deprive them of initiative and thrift.
1906, James MacKaye, The Economy of Happiness, →ISBN, page 516
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving little desire for success or achievement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂m̥bʰí
- Proto-Italic*amβi-
- Latinambi-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ey-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éyti
- Proto-Italic*ejō
- Proto-Italic*eō
- Latineō
- Latinambiō
- Latinambitiō
- Old Frenchambition
- Middle Englishambicioun
- Englishambition
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishambitionless
Translations
Portuguese desambicioso
- desambiciosowithout ambition
Cite this entry
ambitionless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ambitionless
“ambitionless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ambitionless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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