overambitious

/ ˌəʊvəræmˈbɪʃəs /

adjective

1. excessively ambitious

   the aims were overambitious, therefore few were achieved

Example Sentences

Now her estranged husband is just another overambitious politician disgraced.

From The Daily Beast

External foreign developments had been adding to the difficulties of achieving the overambitious industrial and military goals.

From Project Gutenberg

They used words such as promising, uneven, overambitious, gifted.

From Project Gutenberg

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