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All wannabe synonyms

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adjective wannabe

  • aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
  • would-be — wishing or pretending to be: a would-be wit.
  • hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
  • budding — If you describe someone as, for example, a budding businessman or a budding artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art.
  • potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
  • embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
  • enterprising — Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
  • prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
  • eager — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
  • keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
  • promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
  • striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
  • wishful — having or showing a wish; desirous; longing.

noun wannabe

  • aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
  • imitator — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
  • clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
  • copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
  • candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
  • dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
  • applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.
  • contestant — A contestant in a competition or quiz is a person who takes part in it.
  • competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
  • postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
  • striver — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
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