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unambitious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-am-bi-tious
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having little ambition for success or achievement

Example Sentences

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.

Inflected Forms

more unambitious (comparative) most unambitious (superlative)

Derived Forms

unambitiously unambitiousness

Synonyms

ambitionless

Rhymes With

delicious suspicious ambitious vicious fictitious nutritious superstitious auspicious pernicious capricious judicious surreptitious

Questions

What does unambitious mean?
Having little ambition for success or achievement
Where does unambitious come from?
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.

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