0 An unambitious person does not have a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich:
She plays a competent, attractive young woman stuck with a slovenly and unambitious young man.
He left school at 16, not because he was unambitious, but because he wanted to get on with his working life.
The initial idea for the festival was something quite small and unambitious.
He called the current proposals "very lazy and unambitious".
A surveyor is an unambitious, even lowly, profession for a man with an Oxford education.
It was a profitable, if unambitious, business that had just one shop.
In the past, the focus on a free trade agreement with a single country would have been seen as decidedly unambitious.
Most writing of the period is unambitious, anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality.