ambitious vs overambitious

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. 

overambitious

adj
  • Excessively ambitious 

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