Zealous vs. Ambition: What's the Difference?
Zealous and Ambition Definitions
Zealous
Filled with or motivated by zeal; fervent.
Ambition
An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.
Zealous
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
Ambition
The object or goal desired
Her ambition is the presidency.
Zealous
Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.
He may be zealous in the salvation of souls.
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Ambition
Desire for exertion or activity; energy
Had no ambition to go dancing.
Zealous
Filled with religious zeal.
Ambition
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
Zealous
Marked by active interest and enthusiasm;
An avid sports fan
A great walker
An eager beaver
Ambition
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
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Ambition
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
Ambition
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
Ambition
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Ambition
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Ambition
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
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Ambition
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Ambition
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Ambition
A cherished desire;
His ambition is to own his own business
Ambition
A strong drive for success
Ambition
Have as one's ambition
