ambitionless

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Etymology

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From ambition +‎ -less.

Adjective

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ambitionless (comparative more ambitionless, superlative most ambitionless)

  1. Without ambition or motivation
    • 1906, James MacKaye, The Economy of Happiness[1], →ISBN, page 516:
      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.

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