unambitious

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ ambitious.

Pronunciation

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.

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