Meaning & use

Ambitionless

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Lacking ambition or a strong desire to achieve success.

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His ambitionless attitude frustrated managers who wanted him to pursue a promotion.

She was content with an ambitionless, quiet life far from the corporate world.

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A straightforward negation formed with the suffix '-less'; less common than 'unambitious' but equally clear in meaning.

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