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In some senses, aspiring is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Hoping to become.
Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.
noun
Aspiration.
[…] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […]
[…] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.