AMBITIOUS

[adjective]Someone who is ambitious has a great desire to be successful, powerful or wealthy.She's extremely ambitious and intends to be running her own company by the time she's 30.She's the sort of ambitious young professional that any company would be glad to have on its staff.He's very ambitious for his children (= He's anxious that they should be successful).Something that is ambitious needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved.She has some ambitious expansion plans for her business.The tunnel was one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken (= It needed more skill and effort than any other).The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network.The original completion date was over-ambitious, so we have had to delay the opening by six months.The environment minister has set ambitious goals for the recycling of household waste.There are bound to be problems with such an ambitious scheme.