Dictionary entry
Unambitious
Pronunciation: /ʌnamˈbɪʃəs/
Pronunciation
/ʌnamˈbɪʃəs/
Myanmar Meaning
ရည်ရွယ်ချက် မပြင်းထန်သော။
Definition
unambitious / ʌnæm'bÇʃǝs / adj ၁။ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ မႀကီးမားေသာ။ ၂။ အသစ္အဆန္းမဟုတ္ေသာ။ ႐ိုးစင္းေသာ။ an unambitious itinerary/ novel.
Examples
- ‘Fraudley Harrison
- a supremely outstanding amateur turned incredibly unambitious professional
- claimed last week: ‘My plan is to be heavyweight champion of the world.’’
- ‘Shrimps huffed and puffed for more than an hour against a well-drilled but unambitious side who had obviously come to Christie Park looking for one point.’
- ‘Sargent is portrayed as modest
- self-denying and unambitious
- the antithesis of the preening Oxford peacocks.’
- ‘In the Scottish context
- it is quite easy to be unambitious
- to aim low.’
- ‘Anyone who chooses to stay at home with their kids is seen as woefully unambitious and deserving of contempt.’
- ‘This stand-alone thriller features Miles Flint
- an unambitious low-level spy
- whose job is to watch and listen
- and report backs to his superiors.’
- ‘Undermanned
- unambitious and passionate only when circumstances demanded
- they were given what they deserved.’
- ‘His whiskers describe him: bland
- unambitious
- conservative.’
- ‘A country for tenacious
- uncommunicative
- unambitious tacticians
- Turkey bores me to death.’
- ‘Surely this is just a way of kidding ourselves
- though
- since it will make us complacent and unambitious?’
- ‘He is good with the kids
- but too unambitious to make anything of his life.’
- ‘‘Bradford's Conservatives are so unambitious for our area
- ’ she said.’
- ‘Reeking of managerial sub-thinking
- the words chosen to sum up the new policy also sum up the current predicament of the party as a whole: stuck in the middle
- unambitious and lazy.’
- ‘Zapa is a slow
- passive
- unambitious 32-year-old locksmith
- working in a small country town in Argentina.’
- ‘In the Sledmere House tea rooms I overheard a conversation between two lithe and colourfully clad cyclists
- the sort that make me feel so unambitious.’
- ‘Ricky and I were the most unambitious people ever.’
- ‘In many ways
- this movie is entirely unambitious and the ‘unreality’ element is such an old Sci-fi device that I expected it to deliver very little.’
- ‘South Lakeland District Council is unambitious
- lacks drive at the top and is unlikely to improve without significant change
- according to inspectors
- reports Beth Broomby.’
- ‘To give Prosinecki his due he was constantly demanding the ball from teammates
- but just as he took up obvious positions
- he was unambitious in his spreading of the ball
- taking the easy option on just about every occasion.’
- ‘But this turn of events crystallises her relationship with her loving
- if unambitious
- husband.’