Explore Unambitious through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like shiftless or ambitious. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Unambitious in a sentence
Unambitious meaning
Having little ambition for success or achievement
Using Unambitious
- The main meaning on this page is: Having little ambition for success or achievement
- Useful related words include: ambitionless, shiftless, unenterprising, nonenterprising.
- In the example corpus, unambitious often appears in combinations such as: unambitious and, and unambitious.
Context around Unambitious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unambitious
- In this selection, "unambitious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, own, plan, refreshingly, targets and assembly stand out and add context to how "unambitious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and refreshingly unambitious and irrelevant and unambitious. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unambitious" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unambitious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The menu is narrow, casual, and refreshingly unambitious. (8 words)
Unfortunately, the end result was unambitious and painfully anachronistic. (9 words)
Even worse, in many cases Southwark Labour is failing to meet their own unambitious targets. (15 words)
The ICC faces a long hard road to establish its credibility in light of its initial failures, including navigating an unambitious Assembly of States Parties and regaining the confidence of disappointed civil society groups. (34 words)
It added research, monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure efforts go ahead on schedule, but the Pembina Institute called Suncor's plan unambitious and vague. (25 words)
It was conceived as a deliberate break from the traditions of pulp SF, which many of the writers involved considered irrelevant and unambitious. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
Even worse, in many cases Southwark Labour is failing to meet their own unambitious targets.
Labour's Cllr Townsend: “The budget proposals are unambitious and don’t go far enough in meeting the needs of residents.
The new-age T20 players cook on full-flame, slow-burn cricket is suddenly seen as limiting and unambitious.
Unfortunately, the end result was unambitious and painfully anachronistic.
It added research, monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure efforts go ahead on schedule, but the Pembina Institute called Suncor's plan unambitious and vague.
The ICC faces a long hard road to establish its credibility in light of its initial failures, including navigating an unambitious Assembly of States Parties and regaining the confidence of disappointed civil society groups.
The menu is narrow, casual, and refreshingly unambitious.
It was conceived as a deliberate break from the traditions of pulp SF, which many of the writers involved considered irrelevant and unambitious.
Common combinations with unambitious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: