successful
English
Etymology
success + -ful.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səkˈsɛsfl̩/
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Adjective
successful (comparative more successful, superlative most successful)
- Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
- Synonyms: prosperous, fortunate, happy
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Synonyms
- efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable
- See also Thesaurus:prosperous
- (of requests): tithe (obs.)
Antonyms
- unsuccessful
- failed
Derived terms
- behind every successful man there stands a woman
- successfully
- successfulness
Related terms
- success
Translations
resulting in success
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