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Adjective
Aspiring to an ambition, typically with frustration
Unable to fully realise one's ambitions
Starting out or in the early stages of development
Claimed or professed as a title by oneself
Resembling but not actually being
Likely to happen at a future date
Noun
One who aspires to something
A person, considered lowly, who desperately seeks wealth or power
An ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group
Preposition
Would (likely or probably) be a certain way or thing
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▲
Adjective
▲
Aspiring to an ambition, typically with frustration
potential
aspiring
budding
prospective
ambitious
hopeful
wannabe
striving
wishful
eager
keen
enterprising
promising
possible
embryonic
optimistic
longing
unfulfilled
professed
unrealized
undeveloped
so-called
soi-disant
self-appointed
self-styled
aspirant
likely
future
fledgling
developing
hungry
probable
hypothetical
could-be
determined
committed
driven
motivated
enthusiastic
zealous
energetic
purposeful
yearning
pioneering
progressive
desirous
craving
pushing
eager beaver
self-seeking
go-ahead
endeavoring
US
expectant
hard-driving
go-getting
impassioned
intending
endeavouring
UK
on the make
hankering
greedy
desiring
wishing
itchy
acquisitive
lustful
envious
longful
resolute
spirited
single-minded
intent
assertive
steadfast
fierce
strong-willed
active
forceful
ardent
earnest
tenacious
industrious
avid
pushy
unwavering
persistent
resolved
fanatical
self-assertive
dogged
uncompromising
militant
vigorous
strong
staunch
firm
obstinate
plucky
untiring
gutsy
self-starting
dedicated
aggressive
strong-minded
inspired
bent
thirsty
feisty
ruthless
unbending
unyielding
unflinching
stubborn
unfaltering
goal-oriented
self-driven
bent upon
hell-bent
obsessed
indefatigable
mettlesome
set
unflagging
fixed
insistent
indomitable
high-reaching
unhesitating
self-asserting
get up and go
focused
US
persevering
focussed
UK
resilient
stalwart
obsessive
undaunted
steely
bold
unshakeable
obdurate
undeviating
pertinacious
thrusting
fixated
unrelenting
iron-willed
power-hungry
hard-nosed
decisive
power-loving
tough
full of determination
dead set
absorbed
engrossed
adventurous
immersed
passionate
deep
dynamic
compelled
consumed
diligent
spunky
dauntless
game
high-powered
unshakable
unbendable
unshaken
possessed
immovable
audacious
dashing
galvanized
US
adamant
serious
monomaniacal
impelled
courageous
intense
brave
compulsive
obsessional
induced
confident
enthralled
sure
vehement
sagacious
ballsy
impulsive
guided
besetting
pushed
steered
galvanised
UK
desiring success
self-confident
irrepressible
urged on
have-a-go
like a ball of fire
tough-minded
faithful
as game as Ned Kelly
ironclad
high-pressure
up-and-coming
in-your-face
nervy
materialistic
self-improving
attentive
aspirational
fearless
intrepid
rapt
loyal
firm in spirit
independent
perceptive
gritty
two-fisted
keen as mustard
hardy
animated
resourceful
certain
heroic
take charge
mean
stout-hearted
observant
preoccupied
concentrated
hustling
gumptious
entrepreneurial
hardworking
riveted
concentrating
occupied
competitive
assiduous
unremitting
relentless
tireless
go-go
sedulous
rigid
steady
cutthroat
sustained
rigorous
ferocious
inflexible
engaged
unabated
bloodthirsty
stringent
assured
career-minded
gladiatorial
defiant
brutal
scrappy
warlike
bullheaded
wrapped up
impatient
rising
gung ho
hang-tough
self-willed
bound and determined
full-blooded
intensely competitive
stop at nothing
having killer instinct
go for broke
self-possessed
cut-throat
self-assured
dog-eat-dog
can-do
fiercely competitive
talented
gifted
able
coming
apt
bound
out
planful
emerging
succeeding
soaring
climbing
decided
in the making
with potential
on the up and up
coming on strong
likely to succeed
go-getter
inflexible about
hell-bent on
intent on
single-minded about
insistent on
set on
out to
do-or-die
determined to
fixed on
hell-bent upon
bent on
fixed upon
decisive about
anxious to
obsessive about
firm about
minding
fixated on
committed to
obsessed with
dead set on
resolved on
intending to
fanatical about
impatient to
resolved to
determined on
unsentimental
upwardly mobile
purpose driven
highly motivated
more ❯
“In a world filled with
would-be
Supermen, he was the one man who would be Clark Kent.”
Adjective
▲
Unable to fully realise one's ambitions
manque
failed
frustrated
unfulfilled
unsuccessful
wannabe
Adjective
▲
Starting out or in the early stages of development
budding
nascent
developing
incipient
embryonic
beginning
growing
fledgling
burgeoning
inchoate
inceptive
promising
blossoming
rising
aborning
potential
sprouting
coming
future
prospective
flowering
opening
maturing
germinal
aspiring
young
fresh
germinating
pubescent
pullulating
vegetating
wannabe
up-and-coming
in the making
with potential
bursting forth
shooting up
emergent
emerging
dawning
early
infant
flourishing
initial
new
evolving
immature
arising
ascendant
rudimentary
elementary
originating
just beginning
efflorescent
introductory
initiatory
on the rise
starting
commencing
undeveloped
proceeding
issuing
on the up and up
on the way up
appearing
initiative
emanating
emanant
advancing
embryonal
basic
springing
stemming
fundamental
in its infancy
florescent
inflorescent
blooming
in bloom
in blossom
in flower
bearing fruit
preliminary
assurgent
sunrise
primary
incomplete
unindustrialized
newborn
unformed
first
in an early stage
inaugural
expanding
earliest
unfledged
seminal
unshaped
original
naissant
foremost
primordial
antecedent
newly-created
newly-established
newly-formed
virgin
to come
prospering
resulting
pioneer
to be
headmost
coming out
leading
issuing forth
leadoff
in the ascendant
rising in power
one-year-old
impending
year-old
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Claimed or professed as a title by oneself
self-titled
professed
avowed
confessed
pseudo
sworn
soi-disant
self-appointed
so-called
self-styled
self-confessed
self-named
quasi-
self-proclaimed
supposed
ostensible
purported
alleged
pretended
apparent
titular
seeming
formal
in name only
in title only
nominal
claimed
symbolic
named
official
ceremonial
paper
emblematic
token
theoretical
given
honorary
simple
stated
mentioned
puppet
suggested
counterfeit
artificial
synthetic
feigned
presumed
inappropriately named
allegedly
commonly named
reputed
itular
wrongly named
putative
assumed
ostensive
evident
declared
prima facie
specious
outward
superficial
surface
illusory
semblant
hypothetical
likely
rumoured
UK
perceived
rumored
US
conjectural
suppositious
asserted
illusive
supposititious
plausible
presupposed
quote unquote
thought
held
believed
understood
appearing
to all appearances
probable
possible
exterior
said
accepted
suppositional
suppositive
suppository
reputative
honorific
honoris causa
in name
unofficial
reported
suspect
suspicious
suspected
designated
described
unproven
averred
affirmed
doubtful
questionable
dubious
unproved
exhibited
manifest
colorable
notable
demonstrative
quasi
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Resembling but not actually being
quasi-
pseudo-
artificial
bogus
phony
US
phoney
UK
fraudulent
imitation
mock
ostensible
sham
supposed
apparent
counterfeit
fake
false
seeming
ersatz
feigned
forged
pretended
simulated
spurious
synthetic
alleged
cod
deceptive
nominal
ostensive
pretend
purported
semi-
virtual
fakey
near
reported
so-called
put-on
pseudo
wannabe
quasi
to all intents and purposes
self-styled
as it were
affected
assumed
contrived
unnatural
forced
plastic
strained
factitious
faux
insincere
mechanical
misleading
pirate
not real
not legit
not genuine
not kosher
wrong
dummy
inauthentic
unauthentic
faked
substitute
queer
make-believe
snide
fabricated
fictitious
untrue
imitative
manufactured
mimic
pseud
man-made
made-up
unreal
dud
adulterine
invented
concocted
reproduction
dishonest
adopted
trick
improvised
trumped-up
phoney-baloney
phony-baloney
copied
professed
replica
pseudonymous
pirated
knock-off
avowed
facsimile
surface
unqualified
model
hoax
repro
ungenuine
invalid
not what it is cracked up to be
specious
actorly
quack
dissembling
worthless
engineered
counterfeited
delusory
delusive
pinchbeck
apocryphal
cooked-up
non-existent
made up
double-dealing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Likely to happen at a future date
prospective
expected
coming
probable
imminent
approaching
future
impending
anticipated
likely
forthcoming
possible
upcoming
potential
destined
presumptive
awaited
planned
eventual
considered
intended
aspiring
designate
latent
intending
promised
proposed
to come
to be
-to-be
soon-to-be
on the cards
hoped-for
looked-for
in the making
about to be
nearing
pending
proximate
close
oncoming
looming
at hand
in the offing
near
next
in the cards
on the way
close at hand
in the wind
about to happen
fated
immediate
advancing
inevitable
predestined
threatening
gathering
just around the corner
fast-approaching
contemplated
ominous
in line
around the corner
happening soon
on tap
on hand
arriving
onrushing
subsequent
foreseeable
nigh
chosen
foreordained
predetermined
ultimate
preordained
incipient
fast approaching
near-at-hand
appointed
up and coming
designed
doomed
short-term
hereafter
elected
in the course of time
unborn
elect
unfolding
to-be
resulting
inescapable
supplied
on the horizon
in the air
in the pipeline
in store
in preparation
on us
in prospect
coming up
brewing
following
on the agenda
ensuing
later
menacing
just round the corner
overhanging
downstream
succeeding
upon us
in view
coming soon
in the wings
unavoidable
ineluctable
consequent
handwriting-on-the-wall
looming large
latter
see it coming
in the stars
down the pike
down the road
down the line
likely to happen
inevasible
unescapable
expectant
successive
going to happen
underway
on its way
on the verge
will happen
scheduled
portending
subsequential
drawing near
consecutive
near at hand
yet to come
coming after
next off
directly after
coming next
in the near future
under discussion
on the go
approximating
emerging
convergent
appearing
rising
round the corner
due
in sight
nearly on us
converging
progressing
extended
fateful
impendent
near-term
long-term
moving closer
over the long term
up-and-coming
en route
almost on one
getting near
gaining upon
hovering
after
awaiting
successional
undermentioned
posterior
succedent
sequential
resultant
consequential
postliminary
pursuing
running
being prepared
under way
in production
certain
later on
following after
late
next up
sequent
supervenient
on the trot
serial
sure
waiting to
looking to
assured
inexorable
guaranteed
bound
ordained
meant
settled
foredoomed
predesigned
condemned
sealed
stated
that is to be
que sera sera
nailed on
very likely
way the ball bounces
hanging over
written in the cards
that will be
more ❯
Noun
▲
One who aspires to something
wannabe
aspirant
hopeful
tryhard
striver
try hard
candidate
aspirer
applicant
contender
suitor
expectant
applier
campaigner
prospect
seeker
contestant
competitor
postulant
office seeker
job seeker
job hunter
“He is, in this respect, defective with something somehow lacking, spoiled or missing in action, and hence, a failed bachelor, a
would-be
who couldn't.”
Noun
▲
A person, considered lowly, who desperately seeks wealth or power
upstart
wannabe
unknown
nonentity
newcomer
nobody
name-dropper
non-person
Noun
▲
An ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group
arriviste
upstart
parvenu
vulgarian
parvenue
nouveau riche
social climber
new rich
status seeker
new money
self-seeker
newcomer
arrogant
philistine
boor
churl
parvenus
upstarts
arrivistes
vulgarians
profiteer
DINK
yuppie
social climbers
newly-rich
nouveau roturier
self-made man
nouveau arrive
creep
jerk
schmuck
scumbag
scum
cretin
slimeball
sleaze
clown
joker
swine
louse
vermin
slime
skunk
cad
sleazeball
sleazebag
lout
scuzzball
stinkard
rat
varmint
slob
dog
snake
beast
dirtbag
fink
toad
buzzard
heel
crud
stinker
rotter
hound
chuff
bleeder
reptile
bounder
blighter
pill
cur
crumb
rat fink
so-and-so
brute
son of a gun
oaf
skank
scoundrel
wretch
dastard
rogue
scrote
knave
blackguard
varlet
spalpeen
reprobate
vagabond
rascal
villain
swindler
rapscallion
fraudster
trickster
sleeveen
miscreant
worm
stinkpot
mofo
rake
degenerate
scalawag
scuzzbag
slimebag
slimebucket
liar
pervert
dirtball
deviant
scozza
monster
snake in the grass
dastardly person
bad egg
nasty piece of work
bad lot
sly person
unprincipled person
reprehensible person
good-for-nothing
barbarian
bear
buffoon
goon
dolt
boob
more ❯
Preposition
▲
Would (likely or probably) be a certain way or thing
should be
would be
am
are
is
is likely
is probably
are likely
are probably
am likely
am probably
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