underambitious

comparative more underambitious · superlative most underambitious

1. Having too little ambition.

   You risk your work being dismissed as underambitious and so failing to find out anything important.

   2016, Mike Wallace, Alison Wray, Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, →ISBN

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   A woman—or at least I thought so; she could have been a slightly underambitious transvestite—in a leather miniskirt and bustier top, and the sort of waist-length blond extensions designed for twirling around at the same time as the wearer's nipple tassels.

   2014, Hester Browne, Honeymoon Hotel, →ISBN, page 241

   He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.

   2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN