unambitious

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English ambitious

English unambitious

From un- + ambitious.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

unambitious (comparative more unambitious, superlative most unambitious)

1. Having little ambition for success or achievement
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:

     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.

Derived terms

• unambitiously
• unambitiousness

Translations

having little ambition

• Dutch: weinig ambitieus, onambitieus
• Finnish: kunnianhimoton
• French: peu ambitieux, sans ambition
• German: anspruchslos (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἄσπουδος (áspoudos)

• Polish: nieambitny