Ambitious
Ambitious adjective - Having a strong desire for personal advancement.
Usage example: an ambitious child actor and his even more ambitious mother, who will do anything to get him in commercials
Opportunistic and ambitious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Opportunistic" instead an adjective "Ambitious".
Nearby Words: ambition, ambitiously
Opportunistic
Opportunistic adjective - Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.
Ambitious and opportunistic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ambitious" instead an adjective "Opportunistic".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- This has led to fan interpretations of Soundwave being as ambitious and opportunistic as Starscream (if far more shrewd about it) and only playing a loyal follower until the perfect time comes to usurp his leader.
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