unambitious

English

Etymology

un- +‎ ambitious

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

unambitious (comparative more unambitious, superlative most unambitious)

having little ambition for success or achievement
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
  The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.

Translations

having little ambition

Dutch: weinig ambitieus, onambitieus
Finnish: kunnianhimoton
French: peu ambitieux, sans ambition
German: anspruchslos (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἄσπουδος (áspoudos)
Polish: nieambitny

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