Thesaurus / overambitious
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MOST RELEVANT
- arty
- exaggerated
- grandiose
- hollow
- overblown
- pompous
- showy
- stilted
- turgid
- ostentatious
- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfaluting
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- puffed up
- put-on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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External foreign developments had been adding to the difficulties of achieving the overambitious industrial and military goals.
EAST-WEST TRADE TRENDSHAROLD E. STASSEN
They used words such as promising, uneven, overambitious, gifted.
FANNY HERSELFEDNA FERBER
WORDS RELATED TO OVERAMBITIOUS
- affected
- arty
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfaluting
- hollow
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overambitious
- overblown
- pompous
- puffed up
- put-on
- rhetorical
- showy
- specious
- splashy
- stilted
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- turgid
- utopian
- vainglorious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.