Definition for Aspiring:

• That aspires; as, an mind.

Synonyms for Aspiring:

• adj.

  •ambitious (adjective)
  • High-reaching.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • Endeavoring,
  • desirous,
  • eager beaver,
  • on the make,
  • sure,
  • yearning,
  • expectant,
  • faithful.

• n.

  •
  • determined,
  • competitive,
  • purposeful,
  • sedulous,
  • insistent,
  • persistent,
  • driven,
  • dedicated,
  • motivated.
  •
  • desire.
  •aspiring (noun)
  • striving,
  • longing,
  • hopeful,
  • optimistic,
  • eager,
  • would-be.

• v.

  •hoping (verb)
  • Desiring,
  • Expecting,
  • assuming,
  • trusting,
  • Presuming,
  • Hoping,
  • Contemplating,
  • wanting,
  • Anticipating,
  • Relying,
  • Awaiting,
  • dreaming of,
  • believing,
  • wishing.
  •petitioning (verb)
  • competing,
  • Petitioning,
  • bidding,
  • Claiming,
  • Applying.
  •pursuing (verb)
  • tracking,
  • pursuing,
  • Intending,
  • searching,
  • stalking,
  • following,
  • hunting,
  • questing,
  • dogging,
  • seeking,
  • sleuthing,
  • Harrying,
  • tailing,
  • undertaking,
  • trailing,
  • Chasing,
  • Aiming.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • budding.
  •
  • opposing.
  •
  • enthusiastic.
  •exalted
  • grand.
  •Other relevant words:
  • soaring,
  • promising,
  • feeling,
  • Purposing,
  • confident,
  • sanguine,
  • assured,
  • Overtopping,
  • aspire,
  • high,
  • drift,
  • targeting,
  • purport,
  • plan,
  • fond,
  • careerist,
  • craving,
  • training,
  • ethereal,
  • zeal,
  • ascending,
  • appetite,
  • fury,
  • lofty,
  • tendency,
  • gratification,
  • elevated,
  • planning,
  • intention,
  • Spiring,
  • anxiety,
  • aim,
  • disposition,
  • avidity,
  • steep,
  • avarice,
  • monumental,
  • acuteness,
  • aerial,
  • aspirate,
  • altitudinous,
  • vaulting,
  • supernal,
  • Aspirating,
  • airy,
  • panting,
  • earnest,
  • keenness,
  • enthusiasm,
  • calculating,
  • tending,
  • superlative,
  • haughty,
  • ardor,
  • Undespairing,
  • pointing,
  • overlooking,
  • social-climbing,
  • trend,
  • affection,
  • hard-driving,
  • take,
  • colossal,
  • towering,
  • intent,
  • Placing,
  • high up,
  • upreared,
  • hankering,
  • get,
  • go-getting,
  • sublime,
  • delight,
  • high-flying,
  • liking,
  • mounting,
  • joy,
  • propose,
  • eagerness,
  • exalted,
  • inclination,
  • fervor,
  • Proposing,
  • pleasure,
  • calculate,
  • power-hungry,
  • self-seeking,
  • industrious,
  • Lusting,
  • aspiration,
  • wooing,
  • high-pitched,
  • eminent,
  • proclivity,
  • Purporting,
  • uplifted,
  • resourceful,
  • ambition,
  • Coveting,
  • pushing,
  • aspirer,
  • fire,
  • directing,
  • topping,
  • propensity,
  • toplofty,
  • aching,
  • Lifting,
  • passion,
  • topless,
  • dominating,
  • volition,
  • Towery,
  • prominent.

Paraphrases for Aspiring:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    budding, aspirant, potential, future, interested, applicant, applicants, candidates.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    striving, pursuing, endeavouring, wishing, Aiming, Hoping, exhausting, Extracting, breathing, wanting, emerging, Applying, Claiming, trying, vacuuming, sucking, budding, looking.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    would-be, prospective, candidate.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    seeking.

Antonyms for Aspiring:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    lackadaisical, listless, casual, tepid, disinterested, spiritless, indifferent, unassertive, unambitious, uneager, sluggish, apathetic, unaggressive, ambitionless, halfhearted, easygoing, lazy, unexcited, lukewarm, lethargic, shiftless, uninterested, unenthusiastic.

Homophones for Aspiring:

• agapornis.