✅ Ambitious is the best word to describe someone who wants material success, and puts effort towards achieving that (an ambitious politician; he has always been ambitious).
✅ Aspiring is the best word to describe someone who wants to achieve something specific, especially something unusual or special (an aspiring athlete). In casual speech, it can also mean that you want to learn to be good at something (an aspiring guitarist).
✅ Describing someone as an aspiring dancer, for example, means that they want to be a dancer for their career. An ambitious dancer is a dancer who wants success, however they measure that.
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✅ Curious is the best word to describe being nosy, and wanting to know about things that aren’t your business (My colleague was curious about my new car).
✅ Meddlesome is the best word to describe actively inserting yourself into things that aren’t your business (a meddlesome aunt).
✅ Meddlesome suggests intrusiveness, and involving yourself in things without being asked (My meddlesome cousin ruined the event).
✅ Curious, however, has less of a negative connotation, suggesting a desire to know, but not necessarily engage intrusively (He was curious about my vacation but afraid to ask me directly).
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✅ Attribute means to attach a definite cause to something (He attributed his superior golf swing to good coaching).
✅ Ascribe refers to giving credit to something or someone for being the source of something (I ascribed his bad mood to the phone call with the bank).
✅ Attribute and ascribe are often used interchangeably for assigning someone a certain characteristic because of their behavior (He attributed loyalty to his staff; She ascribed malice to the cat when it acted in self-defense).
✅ Unlike ascribe, which is generally neutral, attribute often has a complimentary tone (They attributed their success to the support of their family).
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