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successfully

successfully

350 1.8
In a way that gets the result you want
  • adverb
  • /səkˈsɛsfəli/
translation icon : con éxito
  • Apollo 8 launched successfully this morning.
  • successfully implement
  • successfully quit smoking
  • successfully compete

But how many people are successfully subverting these tests?

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Examples

  • Other American companies had successfully adapted their recipes to the tastes of other cultures.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And that has been so successfully done within our Union.

  • And how do you successfully say no to people?

  • I feel like this building has been successfully taken down.

  • I did end up successfully finding the wedding present bag.

  • Over the last 12 years, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria have all successfully made the transition to democracy.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Various approaches to mandatory vaccination of health care workers have been successfully used throughout the United States.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Investors went with it and the bond was successfully floated, funding secured.

  • One computer, one class, and one music educator can combine successfully to teach music composition, performance, and analysis.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We have run the Daddy Day Care Center successfully for the past several years.

Synonyms

effectively
vssuccessfully
261 3.6

In a way that gets the result you want

prioritizes achieving the result rather than the efficiency of the method
efficaciously
vssuccessfully
  • Formal
8.1

In a way that gets the result you want

treats result generally rather than matching a specific intention

Antonyms

In a way that does not get the result you wanted

Idioms

A funny message people use when a failure gives a good result

How Impressive

brilliantly
54 4.1
impressively
14 3.8
shiningly
5.9
successfully
350 1.8
well
1.0
adequately
83 3.0

Surface Forms

successfully positive

Morphology

successfully = successful (transparent) = success + ful + ly

The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'successful', yielding a straightforward manner adverb.

Etymology

Successfully comes from the noun success plus the ending -ly, and success comes from an old root that meant 'to come out well' (you can see the same idea in succeed). So, to do something successfully is to do it 'in a way that comes out well' or that achieves the result.