Meanings
comparative more unambitious · superlative most unambitious
- Having little ambition for success or achievement
The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving little desire for success or achievement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishambitious
- Englishunambitious
Translations
Ancient Greek ἄσπουδος
- ἄσπουδος (áspoudos)having little ambition
Dutch weinig ambitieus, onambitieus
- weinig ambitieushaving little ambition
- onambitieushaving little ambition
Finnish kunnianhimoton
- kunnianhimotonhaving little ambition
French peu ambitieux, sans ambition
- peu ambitieuxhaving little ambition
- sans ambitionhaving little ambition
German anspruchslos
- anspruchsloshaving little ambition
Polish nieambitny
- nieambitnyhaving little ambition
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unambitious
Cite this entry
unambitious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambitious
“unambitious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambitious. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unambitious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambitious.
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