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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, ascending, assured, careerist, careeristic, colossal, confident, dominating, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, expectant, fond, full of hope, haughty, high, high-flying, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hopeful, hoping, in good heart, in hopes, lofty, monumental, mounting, of good cheer, of good hope, on the make, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, power-hungry, prominent, sanguine, sky-aspiring, soaring, social-climbing, spiring, steep, sublime, superlative, supernal, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, undespairing, uplifted, upreared
Dictionary Results for aspiring:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
aspiring
    adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn:
           aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aspire \As*pire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aspired; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Aspiring.] [F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See Aspirate, v.
   t.]
   1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high
      or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after,
      and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire
      after immorality.
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            Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
            Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.     --Pope.
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   2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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            My own breath still foments the fire,
            Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. --Waller.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aspiring \As*pir"ing\, a.
   That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind. -- As*pir"ing*ly, adv.
   -- As*pir"ing*ness, n.
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