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Synonyms for successful
səkˈsɛs fəlsuc·cess·ful

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Wiktionary3.7 / 3 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. successful

    Synonyms:
    lucky, fortunate, happy, auspicious, prosperous

Princeton's WordNet2.6 / 5 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. successfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    prosperous, fortunate, lucky, auspicious, felicitous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. successfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate

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How to use successful in a sentence?

  1. Mick Jagger:

    Boardwalk Empire's been very successful and Boardwalk Empire's great that a show about music can be that successful and it's good for everybody. And I think Boardwalk Empire's Boardwalk Empire.

  2. Yanis Varoufakis:

    We want a successful Europe, a successful currency union.

  3. Queen Constance:

    Behind every successful man must be a very successful, staunch woman, our tradition has it that when you are king, the elderly wives remain to hand down the tradition to the younger wives, and also to teach the king the tradition because the king had been a prince, not a king.

  4. Jay Abiona:

    A man being wealthy doesn't necessarily mean he is successful. However, ALL successful men are wealthy!

  5. Sidney Madwed:

    To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.


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