Синонимы к слову ambition

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.1 / 7 votes

1. ambition

   Aspiration is the desire for excellence, pure and simple. Ambition, literally a going around to solicit votes, has primary reference to the award or approval of others, and is the eager desire of power, fame, or something deemed great and eminent, and viewed as a worthy prize. The prizes of aspiration are virtue, nobility, skill, or other high qualities. The prizes of ambition are advancement, fame, honor, and the like. There is a noble and wise or an ignoble, selfish, and harmful ambition. Emulation is not so much to win any excellence or success for itself as to equal or surpass other persons. There is such a thing as a noble emulation, when those we would equal or surpass are noble, and the means we would use worthy. But, at the highest, emulation is inferior as a motive to aspiration, which seeks the high quality or character for its own sake, not with reference to another. Competition is the striving for something that is sought by another at the same time. Emulation regards the abstract, competition the concrete; rivalry is the same in essential meaning with competition, but differs in the nature of the objects contested for, which, in the case of rivalry, are usually of the nobler sort and less subject to direct gaging, measurement, and rule. We speak of competition in business, emulation in scholarship, rivalry in love, politics, etc.; emulation of excellence, success, achievement; competition for a prize; rivalry between persons or nations. Competition may be friendly, rivalry is commonly hostile. Opposition is becoming a frequent substitute for competition in business language; it implies that the competitor is an opponent and hinderer.

   Synonyms:
   aspiration, competition, emulation, opposition, rivalry

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, contentment, humility, indifference, satisfaction

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. ambition, aspiration, dreamnoun

   a cherished desire

   «his ambition is to own his own business»

   Synonyms:
   breathing in, aspiration, inhalation, inspiration, ambitiousness, pipe dream, dream, intake, dreaming

2. ambition, ambitiousnessverb

   a strong drive for success

   Synonyms:
   ambitiousness, dream, aspiration

3. ambitionverb

   have as one’s ambition

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1. Fahrettin Altun:

   Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs.

2. Nicolas Sarkozy:

   Here is another person thinking I have a lot of power, i didn’t have this ambition … but thank him for me.

3. Rick Brights:

   I could not in good conscience ignore the scientific recommendations to limit access to those drugs under the direct care of a doctor, and instead allow political ambition and timelines to override scientific judgment. And that was just one of the many improper things I pushed back on with senior leadership within HHS.

4. Jennifer Morgan:

   If the G20 was a dress rehearsal for COP26, then world leaders fluffed their lines, their communique was weak, lacking both ambition and vision, and simply failed to meet the moment. Now they move onto Glasgow where there is still a chance to seize a historic opportunity, but the likes of Australia and Saudi Arabia need to be marginalised, while rich countries need to finally grasp that the key to unlock COP26 is trust.

5. Sallust:

   It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

• طموحArabic
• амбиция, честолюбиеBulgarian
• ctižádostCzech
• Ambition, EhrgeizGerman
• ambicioEsperanto
• ambiciónSpanish
• خواهش, آرزو, اشتیاقPersian
• kunnianhimoFinnish
• ambitionFrench
• ambisiIndonesian
• ambizioneItalian
• アンビション, 野心, 野望Japanese
• პატივმოყვარეობაGeorgian
• ಮಹತ್ವಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷೆKannada
• ambitioLatin
• AmbitiounLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• hemongaMāori
• ambizzjoniMaltese
• ambisjonNorwegian
• ambiçãoPortuguese
• цель, честолю́бие, мечта́, амби́цияRussian
• častoljublje, prègalāštvo, àmbīcijaSerbo-Croatian
• ambitionSwedish
• லட்சியம்Tamil
• hırsTurkish
• tham vọngVietnamese
• 野心Chinese

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