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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring success |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, anxious, ardent, aspiring, avid, ball of fire, bent upon, climbing, come on, come on strong, designing, desirous, determined, driving, eager, eager beaver, earnest, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, fireball, get up and go, go-getter, goal-oriented, hard ball, high-reaching, hopeful, hungry, industrious, inspired, intent, longing, power-loving, purposeful, pushing, pushy*, resourceful, self-starting, sharp, soaring, striving, thirsty, vaulting, zealous |
| Antonyms: | content, fulfilled, satisfied, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high |
| Synonyms: | aerial, ascending, climbing, elevated, flying, going through the ceiling, going through the roof, high-reaching, lofty, sky-high, steep, towering |
| Main Entry: | up-and-coming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rising |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, climbing, coming on strong, determined, eager, enterprising, get up and go, go-getter, high-reaching, hungry, promising, soaring, striving, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | uphill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going up |
| Synonyms: | acclivous, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, skyward, sloping upward, toward summit, up, uprising |
| Antonyms: | downhill |
| Main Entry: | creeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to creeping |
| Synonyms: | climbing, clinging, growing along the ground, horizontal, procumbent, prostrate, recumbent, reptant, reptilian, serpentine, spreading, stoloniferous, trailing, vermicular, vinelike |
| Antonyms: | standing, upright, vertical |
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