aspirational

American  

[as-puh-rey-shuh-nl] / ˌæs pəˈreɪ ʃə nl /

adjective

1. relating to or characterized by aspiration or a strong desire for something.

   their aspirational goals for the New Year.

2. aimed at or appealing to people who want to attain a higher social position or standard of living.

   a magazine featuring aspirational products for the home.

3. Medicine/Medical. relating to the act of removing a fluid from a body cavity or of inhaling a fluid into the lungs.

4. Phonetics. relating to articulation involving an audible puff of breath.

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Etymology

Origin of aspirational

aspiration + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Nonetheless, after the beating stocks have taken, suddenly 7000 on the S&P 500 sounds aspirational rather than merely adequate.

From Barron's

They are educated, aspirational people with nowhere else to put their ambitions.

From BBC

Canada seemed to give more ground to Native tribes when it endorsed, as a nonbinding “aspirational” document, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or Undrip, in 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal

That's essentially the aspirational upper middle class and not the mass market, but a large enough gap for British universities to exploit.

From BBC

"The extent to which this large, increasingly educated and aspirational cohort is productively absorbed into the labour market will determine whether this massive and continuing demographic dividend translates into an economic dividend," the report says.

From BBC