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overambitious

[ UK /ˌə‍ʊvəɹæmbˈɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /ˈoʊvɝæmˌbɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively ambitious

How To Use overambitious In A Sentence

  • She had some grandiose ( ie overambitious ) plan to start up her own company.
  • I think I was overambitious in the number of books I brought on vacation.
  • Latvia's attempts to get the ball forward quickly frequently ended in failure because of overambitious passes.
  • The strategy is comprehensive but it looks overambitious for the resources allocated to it.
  • I find some overseas prescriptions sound, some obvious, and some overambitious and pretentious.
  • You don't want to be too overambitious and be accused of being pretentious and too artsy.
  • A year later he was facing electoral defeat, having been overambitious in almost every field.
  • Being overambitious increases the risk of falling short of generating enough wonga to retire on.
  • Given you believe it's overambitious, does that lend you to think it's going to fail like the others that have failed in the past couple of years?
  • The event provides a forum for people to vent their frustrations, as long as they do this within a certain language framework, and are not overambitious or militant about their demands.
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