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successful

successful

1.6
You have achieved what you wanted
  • adjective
  • /səkˈsɛsfəl/
translation icon : exitoso
  • Last year was our most successful year on social media.
  • a successful implementation
  • successful conservation
  • a successful program

My God, he's the most successful DJ I know.

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Examples

  • Like, how'd you become so successful so young?

  • If you want to be successful, you have to change this.

  • OK, what was your most successful book and why?

  • OK, It says I am a successful independent mother.

  • And it's those successful people in the world.

  • I would say that was quite a successful snack shop.

  • It's it's the most successful hedge fund ever, I think.

  • Why do you think I'm so successful in this business, Mary?

  • That's what I call a successful trip to the mall.

  • Last year was our most successful year on social media.

Synonyms

effective
vssuccessful
986 3.1

Produces the intended result, for example a speech or medicine

focuses on the final achievement of a goal rather than the process
victorious
vssuccessful
62 3.7

A person who has won a contest or match and feels proud

applies more generally to achieving goals not only wins in contests
triumphant
vssuccessful
58 3.7

Feeling very happy and proud after a win or success

is about achieving the intended goal rather than the feeling afterward
winning
vssuccessful
1.0

Having won a game or contest

is broader and used for any favorable result not limited to contests

Antonyms

76 2.9

Not getting the result someone wants

Compounds

A person who starts and runs a business that makes a lot of money or becomes well known

How Successful

outstanding
257 3.4
successful
1.6
mixed
1 1.0
unsuccessful
76 2.9

Surface Forms

successful positive

Morphology

successful = success (transparent) = success + ful

Regular adjectival derivation from the noun 'success' with the productive suffix '-ful' meaning 'characterized by or full of'.

Etymology

Successful comes from success, a word that goes back to a Latin word meaning 'to come after' and then 'to turn out well'. It is the same root as succeed, so to be successful is to have 'succeeded' or to get the result you wanted.