ambitionless

English

Etymology

ambition +‎ -less

Adjective

ambitionless (comparative more ambitionless, superlative most ambitionless)

1. Without ambition or motivation
   • 1906, James MacKaye, The Economy of Happiness‎^[1], →ISBN, page 516:

     Many earnest persons believe that the cessation of individual ownership in the means of production would leave the people in a hopeless, ambitionless, and dejected condition- would deprive them of initiative and thrift.

Derived terms

• ambitionlessly
• ambitionlessness

 

Translations

without ambition

• Portuguese: desambicioso