Home › Words › U › underambitionunderambitionunderambition means the quality of being underambitious.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, underambition ranks #16,749 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom under- + ambition.nounThe quality of being underambitious.e.g.“Both overambition and underambition at this stage will lead to frustration and the inevitable lack of effective progress.” — 2002, Eric Ruding, Middle Management in Action: Practical Approaches to School Improvement, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).