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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

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  1. successfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate

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How to use successful in a sentence?

  1. Tom Steyer:

    In order for this to be a successful election we don't need to just beat Donald Trump – we need a broad mandate for change.

  2. Judge Eric Leach:

    This case involves a human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, a young man overcomes huge physical disabilities to reach Olympian heights as an athlete. In doing so he becomes an international celebrity, he meets a young woman of great natural beauty and a successful model, romance blossoms, and then, ironically on Valentine’s Day, all is destroyed when he takes her life.

  3. Gregory Nunn:

    It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

  4. Donald Robert Perry Marquis:

    The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

  5. Keenan Reynolds:

    Over the years, I've learned to manage my time from an academic standpoint, i know when I need to start stuff depending on how hard it is, what it is. I know myself, how I work, how my pace of work is. And so I think that combined with just being here and having mentors -- as an underclassman people showing you the ropes, teaching you how things work -- it kind of gives you a basis and a foundation to move forward and be successful when it comes to time management and balancing all the different things the Naval Academy demands of you.


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