aspiring

[uh-spahyer-ing]

adjective

1. eagerly or ambitiously aiming for a particular career, title, social status, etc.: a team of aspiring gold medalists.

   an aspiring composer;

   a team of aspiring gold medalists.

Other Word Forms

• aspiringly adverb
• nonaspiring adjective
• unaspiring adjective
• unaspiringly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of aspiring¹

First recorded in 1575–1595; aspire ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Synonym Study

See ambitious.

Example Sentences

The case has also derailed the aspiring career of the viral hitmaker.

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Seeing Tesla as an aspiring AI winner isn’t a surprise to investors.

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Goldman, 25, was an aspiring actor and friend of Nicole Brown Simpson.

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He has also been an entrepreneur and would-be mogul aspiring to join the ranks of those he writes about.

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In one such talk earlier this year, he doled out advice to aspiring researchers: “If you are a Ph.D. student in AI, you should absolutely not work on LLMs.”

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Related Words

• eager 
• would-be