AMBITIOUS

AMBI'TIOUS, adjective 1. Desirous of power, honor, office, superiority or excellence; aspiring; eager for fame; followed by of before a noun; as ambitious of glory.2. Showy; adapted to command notice or praise; as, ambitious ornaments.3. Figuratively, eager to swell or rise higher; as, the ambitious ocean.

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ambitious. Ambitious, a. a desirous, fond, aspiring, proud, vain

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Am‐bi″tious (�), a. [[L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux. See Ambition.]] 1. 1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak. 2. 2. Strongly desirous; — followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper. 3. 3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.