overambitious in English

adjective
1
excessively ambitious.
I find some overseas prescriptions sound, some obvious, and some overambitious and pretentious.

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1. Her plans were overambitious.

2. Chinese media say he disagrees with the company's overambitious dealer expansion strategy.

3. She had some grandiose ( ie overambitious ) plan to start up her own company.

4. Groupon has stumbled since filing to go public this past June, using accounting methods some found overambitious.

5. The golem thus became a creation of overambitious and overreaching mystics, who would inevitably be punished for their blasphemy, very similar to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the alchemical homunculus .

6. ‘It is very easy for us in the media to Attitudinise because we have always got the escape hatch of saying, well it is not our job to prescribe.’ ‘Her plays have been eccentric, attitudinizing, overambitious.’ ‘The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.’

7. Late 14c., "craving, yearning, overambitious," from Latin Ambitiosus "eager for public office, eager to win favor, ingratiating," from ambitio "a going around (to solicit votes)," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go").

8. Ambitious (adj.) late 14c., "craving, yearning, overAmbitious," from Latin Ambitiosus "eager for public office, eager to win favor, ingratiating," from Ambitio "a going around (to solicit votes)," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb-"around" (from PIE root *ambhi-"around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei-"to go").