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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.



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Other Words From

  • as·pir·ing·ly adverb
  • non·as·pir·ing adjective
  • un·as·pir·ing adjective
  • un·as·pir·ing·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of aspiring1

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

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Example Sentences

That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable.

For many aspiring comedians, earning a place on SNL is their entire raison d'être.

Not about encouraging aspiring butchers to live out their violent fantasies in Syria.

Great for the aspiring Quentin Tarantino, or for the aspiring next Feiffer.

This is not lost on their commander, Rama (Shani Klein), an aspiring military careerist who looks down on frivolity in wartime.

The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.

A woman with such capabilities would be wasted in the rle of a mere countess—but as the wife of an aspiring Liberal statesman!

Beauty was there; but it was the beauty of sadness; it was the crushed ruin of what might once have been bright and aspiring.

Throw your knowledge into compositions of a less startling, less aspiring character.

Yet, even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces, his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up.

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