Meanings of overambitious in English

Mr Gormley said his original date of next June now seemed overambitious.

They were creating clear openings and, if anything, wasting them through being overambitious.

At the risk of sounding overambitious, we believe that everyone should read this book.

They used words such as promising, uneven, overambitious, gifted.

Phil Jackson's confident assurance that she was just an overambitious busybody, blindly fishing, obviously missed the mark.

And I will attempt to speak Chinese come what may, however idiotic and overambitious a goal this is.

Mr Lotu-Iiga agreed with the review's central finding that the plan to manage Smith was overambitious and ill-informed.

But it has run up losses, struggling with the continent's banking infrastructure, overambitious plane orders and office costs.

Neither parent should be overambitious.

The very word 'Wagnerian' was an insult: it meant bloated, overambitious, politically suspect and at least an hour too long.

If Labour is overambitious to think always of renationalisation, it is right to say that this must be a watershed.

The trouble seems to be that your plans for the day are a touch overambitious, which could increase your impatience.

The insanely overambitious NHS computer scheme is more than two years behind schedule, while the estimated cost has tripled to £20bn.

The untalented and overambitious can often be seen hobbling out of the underpass with their instruments stuffed where the moon doesn't shine.

Besides, William T. Morrison was a stuck-up, overambitious, pretty-boy prick, and what in the hell was Mary thinking when she married him?

The competitions get pretty fierce and bloodthirsty, since they're the only way the overambitious can outshine their peers and get noticed doing it.