Synonyms for successful
səkˈsɛs fəlsuc·cess·ful

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1. successfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   efficacious, profitable, effective, accomplished, fruitful, rewarding

   Antonyms:
   unsuccessful, failed

2. successfuladjective

   Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy

   Synonyms:
   efficacious, accomplished, fruitful, rewarding, effective, profitable

   Antonyms:
   unsuccessful, failed

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1. successful

   A man is successful in any case if he achieves or gains what he seeks; he is known as a successful man if he has achieved or gained worthy objects of endeavor; he is fortunate or lucky if advantages have come to him without or beyond his direct planning or achieving. Lucky is the more common and colloquial, fortunate the more elegant word; fortunate is more naturally applied to the graver matters, as we speak of the fortunate, rather than the lucky, issue of a great battle; lucky more strongly emphasizes the element of chance, as when we speak of a lucky hit, a lucky guess, or of one as "born under a lucky star." Favored is used in a religious sense, implying that one is the object of divine favor. Happy, in this connection, signifies possessed of the means of happiness. One is said to be happy or prosperous whether his prosperity be the result of fortune or of achievement; prospered rather denotes the action of a superintending Providence.

   Synonyms:
   favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous

   Antonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched

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1. successful

   Synonyms:
   lucky, fortunate, happy, auspicious, prosperous

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1. successfuladjective

   having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome

   "a successful architect"; "a successful business venture"

   Antonyms:
   sunk, hitless, frustrated, no-win, ruined, goalless, washed-up, unrewarded, down-and-out, attempted, foiled, disappointed, self-defeating, winless, unfulfilled, out(a), unsuccessful, discomfited, undone, done for(p), unrealized, empty-handed, scoreless, unplaced, defeated, thwarted, unrealised

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1. successfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   prosperous, fortunate, lucky, auspicious, felicitous

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1. successfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate

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1. List of paraphrases for "successful":

   success, fruitful, successfully, satisfactory, prosperous, effective, succeeded, positive, good, productive, smooth, chengkung, achievement, succeed, efficient, successes, happy, conclusive, thriving

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1. Hakan Buskhe:

   We have a new situation with new threats and different ways to take our knowledge that we are working on each and every day and so far we have been successful. But we don't take anything for granted.

2. Yun Sun:

   While his mixed messages toward North Korea are a big no-no, he has been somewhat successful at his diplomacy with other countries in Asia he can play nice and be very amicable with Kim, but when it comes to the negotiating table he will push very hard.

3. Matthew Ball:

   Marvel Studios is the most successful entertainment franchise in history, even Cicero would need an hour to extoll the Marvel Cinematic Universe's achievements and popularity.

4. Ayman Odeh:

   We had a successful formula in the '90s with the Rabin government, we united those marginalized and threatened, and we seek partnership with Jews too.

5. Governor Fallin:

   Instead, the bill will help continue Oklahoma's successful placement of children with a broad array of loving families and basically maintain the status quo by setting forth in statute practices which have successfully worked for the best interest of Oklahoma City children.