Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Ambitious to an excessive degree.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Excessively ambitious

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective excessively ambitious

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

over- +‎ ambitious

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word overambitious.

Examples

  • All parties, he suggested, were being "overambitious" in their claims to be able to cut spending and warned that whoever formed the next government would have to rely far more on tax increases than so far admitted.

    icCoventry 2010

  • All parties, he suggested, were being "overambitious" in their claims to be able to cut spending and warned that whoever formed the next government would have to rely far more on tax increases than so far admitted.

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • He said that they were being "overambitious" about how much could be cut from public spending.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • He said that they were being "overambitious" about how much could be cut from public spending.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • He warned that it appeared the parties were being "overambitious" about how much could be cut from public expenditure, suggesting that the next government would have to rely much more on "tax increases and welfare cuts" than anyone was currently admitting.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • This element of the project is due to finish this month and the target of 200 groups was "overambitious" given that groups were still being set up with only weeks left to run.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • This element of the project is due to finish this month and the target of 200 groups was "overambitious" given that groups were still being set up with only weeks left to run.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • This element of the project is due to finish this month and the target of 200 groups was "overambitious" given that groups were still being set up with only weeks left to run.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • But while Gerard Butler managed to inject a little bit of sympathy into his unbelievable character, Jamie Foxx fails to provide the least amount of likability as an overdriven and overambitious prosecutor.

    Rabid Rewind: Law Abiding Citizen 2010

  • And for men, there is a risk of arriving at the ceremony with sore muscles and an aching back from being overambitious at the gym.

    A wedding diet is not a piece of cake 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.