ambitious vs operant

ambitious

adj
  • Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition 

  • Very desirous 

  • Hard to achieve. 

  • Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction. 

operant

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

noun
  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

  • An operative person or thing. 

How often have the words ambitious and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )