Meanings
adjectiveoverambitious (not comparable)
- not comparableExcessively 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveexcessively ambitious
Similar
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishambitious
- Englishoverambitious
Translations
Irish aindréimeach
- aindréimeachexcessively ambitious
Norwegian Bokmål overambisiøs
- overambisiøsexcessively ambitious
Spanish rampante, sobreambicioso
- rampanteexcessively ambitious
- sobreambiciosoexcessively ambitious
Cite this entry
APA
overambitious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overambitious
MLA
“overambitious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overambitious. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overambitious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overambitious.
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