overambitious

overambitious

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English ambitious
English overambitious

    From over- + ambitious.

    Adjective

    overambitious (not comparable)

    1. Excessively ambitious.
      • Spring 2022, Mats Wahlberg, “The Banach-Tarski Paradox”, in Umeå University‎[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2022, page 24:
        The Hyperwebster is an overambitious work that provides a complete list of all words in the form of every possible combination of letters of any finite length.

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