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successfuladjective
Synonyms:
efficacious, profitable, effective, accomplished, fruitful, rewardingAntonyms:
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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, profitableAntonyms:
unsuccessful, failed
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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, prosperousAntonyms:
broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched
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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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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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Rogelio Morando:
It was a very successful program and at a much lower cost than doing higher intensity training.
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The CDC:
If a pilot successfully reaches the intended populations, the jurisdiction will be encouraged to adapt this model for broader implementation with future federally allocated vaccine distributions, this process will allow CDC and its public health partners to determine new, successful methods of delivering care to the communities most at need, which will help alleviate the effects of the current outbreak and potentially develop repeatable methods that can be used to avoid these inequities in the future as well.
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Judith Toensing:
Judith Toensing has many more miles to go, I know with Judith Toensing tenacity, Judith Toensing dedication, and Judith Toensing passion for helping humanity, Judith Toensing will be highly successful and that we will all be the better for knowing Judith Toensing.
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Ben Wood:
If Apple is successful, it’ll create a rising tide that will lift the whole market.
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Allen West:
Texas is a strong, successful, constitutional conservative red state.
Translations for SUCCESSFUL
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- فائز, ناجح, موفقArabic
- паспяхо́выBelarusian
- успе́шенBulgarian
- সফলBengali
- exitósCatalan, Valencian
- úspěšnýCzech
- erfolgreichGerman
- sukcesaEsperanto
- triunfador, exitoso, conseguidoSpanish
- edukasEstonian
- arrakastatsuBasque
- کامگار, موفق شدن, موفقPersian
- onnistunut, menestyvä, menestynytFinnish
- couronné de succès, ayant du [[succès]], marqué de [[succès]]French
- rathúilIrish
- מוצלחHebrew
- सफलHindi
- eredményes, sikeresHungarian
- հաջողArmenian
- riuscito, coronato dal successo, ben riuscito, andato a buon fine, di successoItalian
- 成功Japanese
- 성공한Korean
- у́спешенMacedonian
- gelukt, succesvol, geslaagdDutch
- vellukkaNorwegian Nynorsk
- vellykketNorwegian
- udanyPolish
- bem sucedido, bem-sucedido, conseguidoPortuguese
- уда́чный, благополу́чный, успе́шныйRussian
- सफलSanskrit
- успешан, uspešan, uspješan, успјешанSerbo-Croatian
- úspešnýSlovak
- uspešenSlovene
- lyckad, framgångsrikSwedish
- வெற்றிகரமானTamil
- muvaffaklar, muvaffakTurkish
- вда́тний, успі́шнийUkrainian
- سپھلUrdu
- thành côngVietnamese
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acknowledged, at the top of the tree, best-selling, booming, efficacious, favourable, flourishing, fortunate, fruitful, going places, home and dry (Brit. informal) lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, on a roll, out in front (informal) paying, profitable, prosperous, rewarding, thriving, top, unbeaten, victorious, wealthy
Antonyms
defeated, failed, ineffective, losing, luckless, uneconomic, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
successful
1 adj Something that is successful achieves what it was intended to achieve. Someone who is successful achieves what they intended to achieve.
oft ADJ in -ing (Antonym: unsuccessful)
How successful will this new treatment be?…, I am looking forward to a long and successful partnership with him…, She has been comparatively successful in maintaining her privacy.
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successfully adv ADV with v
The doctors have successfully concluded preliminary tests.
2 adj Something that is successful is popular or makes a lot of money.
…the hugely successful movie that brought Robert Redford an Oscar for his directing…, One of the keys to successful business is careful planning.
3 adj Someone who is successful achieves a high position in what they do, for example in business or politics.
oft ADJ in n (Antonym: unsuccessful)
Women do not necessarily have to imitate men to be successful in business…, She is a successful lawyer.
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! Retardo |
n. |
A suburbian species characterized for increased muscle strength, synaptic plasticity, and overall performance in a wide range of activities. The definition is limited by the extent of research to date. Generally, a moderately conditioned interaction will result in successful dialogue. |
[Fam.];[Biol.] Retardo has a great personality. |
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be ahead of the game |
id. |
be more successful than others in a competitive situation or do things in advance in order to succeed in a competition. |
That basketball team was ahead of the game that is why they won! |
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jump the shark |
exp. |
expression used to describe something that is in decline or has lost the qualities that made it popular, appealing, successful |
used originally in media to describe a show or a movie that is declining in popularity. E.g: I loved their ads, but with the last ones they just jump the shark. |
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don’t give up the day job |
id. |
a humorous way of recommending someone not to pursue something at which they are unlikely to be good or successful and thus, to rather stick to what they can do best, namely, their job |
Ex.: Although she had poured her whole heart and soul into her singing at the karaoke, her somewhat cruel but nonetheless lucid friends told her: ‘don’t give up the day job!’ |
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the early bird catches the worm |
exp. |
one who arrives first has the best chance of being successful or getting the best deals; often shortened to ‘early bird’ and also used in the sense of ‘early riser’ |
Ex.: »The early bird catches the worm, yeah maybe, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese!», he argued. |
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active, advancing, advantageous, alert, auspicious, en.synonym.one, busy, conquering, dependable, dominant, dominating, effectual, efficacious, engaged, exultant, favoured, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, going along fine, growing, happy, honest, influential, lucky, occupied, en.synonym.one, overpowering, prevailing, profitable, propitious, prospering, prosperous, reliable, safe, solid, sound, subduing, succeeding, superior, surviving, thrifty, thriving, triumphal, triumphant, trustworthy, unbeaten, up and coming, vanquishing, victorious, vigourous, well, en.synonym.one, well-established, well-off, winning.
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- successful.
• beneficial (adjective)
- good,
- advantageous,
- better,
- prosperous,
- helpful,
- useful,
- improving,
- beneficial,
- Gainful,
- favorable,
- progressive.
• continuous (adjective)
- ongoing.
• easy (adjective)
- most unworried,
- un-demanding,
- un-hurried,
- more unworried,
- un exacting,
- most cursive,
- un worried,
- effortless,
- more unexacting,
- more cursive,
- un-disturbed,
- un-troubled,
- un demanding,
- most undemanding,
- un-exacting,
- un-worried,
- most unexacting,
- un disturbed,
- more undemanding,
- peaceful,
- un troubled,
- un hurried.
• effectual (adjective)
- most achieving,
- most fulfilling,
- most telling,
- potent,
- licit,
- most efficient,
- most effecting,
- virtuous,
- forcible,
- more efficient,
- most accomplishing,
- more telling,
- more accomplishing,
- more achieving,
- more effecting,
- de terminative,
- more fulfilling,
- de-terminative.
• efficacious (adjective)
- puissant.
• favorable, profitable (adjective)
- outstanding,
- champion,
- bestselling,
- rolling,
- undefeated,
- at top of ladder,
- crowned,
- at the top,
- strong,
- auspicious,
- acknowledged,
- fruitful,
- fortuitous,
- out in front,
- ahead of the game,
- lucrative,
- thriving,
- paying,
- blossoming,
- rewarding,
- victorious,
- wealthy,
- top,
- notable,
- unbeaten,
- on track,
- extraordinary,
- noteworthy,
- triumphant.
• flourishing (adjective)
- more expanding,
- most mushrooming,
- growing,
- more mushrooming,
- most burgeoning,
- pro fuse,
- expanding,
- pro-fuse,
- most expanding,
- profuse,
- more burgeoning,
- in pink.
• fortunate (adjective)
- favored,
- more fortunate,
- blessed,
- propitious,
- born with a silver spoon,
- healthy,
- get a break,
- sunny side,
- in luck,
- in the gravy.
• fruitful (adjective)
- more wellspent,
- more spawning,
- most spawning,
- most breeding,
- more propagating,
- re-producing,
- more childing,
- most reproducing,
- most proliferant,
- more well-spent,
- most childing,
- co pious,
- most wellspent,
- more breeding,
- more proliferant,
- re warding,
- more well spent,
- most well spent,
- more blossoming,
- most propagating,
- re-warding,
- most fructiferous,
- well spent,
- most blossoming,
- co-pious,
- wellspent,
- re producing,
- more reproducing,
- most well-spent,
- more fructiferous.
• golden (adjective)
- de lightful,
- re-splendent,
- de-lightful.
• happy (adjective)
- enviable,
- welltimed,
- be-fitting.
• lucky (adjective)
- in to something,
- on a streak,
- everything going,
- more serendipitous,
- most serendipitous,
- on streak,
- coming roses,
- striking it rich,
- striking rich,
- getting break,
- in groove,
- hit big.
• moneymaking (adjective)
- more well paying,
- most paying,
- more paying,
- more wellpaying,
- most well paying,
- more well-paying,
- most well-paying,
- wellpaying,
- most wellpaying,
- well paying.
• ongoing (adjective)
- in process,
- in progress.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- serendipitous,
- winning,
- set for life,
- in the groove,
- Childing,
- undemanding,
- in top form,
- lucky,
- profitable,
- well timed,
- unworried,
- booming,
- paying well,
- self-sustaining,
- moneymaking,
- at ease,
- happy,
- holding aces,
- effectual,
- well-paying,
- rolling in it,
- prospering,
- blooming,
- fortunate,
- getting a break,
- into something,
- doing well,
- well-spent,
- golden,
- well-to-do,
- hit it big,
- providential,
- all systems go,
- easy,
- be fitting,
- boomy,
- in full swing,
- coming up roses,
- efficacious,
- unexacting,
- in force,
- fructiferous,
- cursive,
- in clover,
- paid off,
- proliferant,
- prevalent,
- in the pink,
- going strong,
- flourishing.
• prevalent (adjective)
- para mount,
- most predominate,
- pre-dominant,
- preponderant,
- pre dominate,
- more predominate,
- over bearing,
- more prevalent,
- Over-bearing,
- pre-dominate,
- pre vailing,
- pre dominant,
- para-mount.
• profitable (adjective)
- more sustaining,
- more self-sustaining,
- selfsustaining,
- cost effective,
- most selfsustaining,
- in black,
- more selfsustaining,
- more self sustaining,
- costeffective,
- most sustaining,
- self sustaining,
- most self-sustaining,
- most self sustaining.
• prosperous (adjective)
- on the track,
- over the hump,
- sitting in the catbird seat,
- in front of the parade,
- up in the world,
- at the top of the ladder.
• successful (adjective)
- upwardly mobile,
- meteoric,
- Vaunted,
- bumper,
- ascendant,
- well-established,
- glorious,
- growth,
- breakout,
- all-right,
- red hot,
- consummate,
- accomplished,
- look back,
- established,
- go-go.
• unbeaten (adjective)
- unconquered.
• well-to-do (adjective)
- well to do,
- rolling it.
• winning (adjective)
- most winning.
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n.
• eminent (noun)
- eminent.
• made (noun)
- made.
• no-hit (noun)
- no-hit.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- state.
• successful (noun)
- triple crown.
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v.
• defeated (verb)
- beaten.
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Other synonyms:
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- popular.
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- pretty.
• flourishing
- going.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- smash,
- gloss,
- first,
- worthwhile,
- efficient,
- contented,
- serviceable,
- luster,
- rich,
- smashing,
- succeeding,
- conspicuous,
- Prospered,
- remarkable,
- substantial,
- flee,
- remunerative,
- propertied,
- proud,
- prolific,
- eclat,
- leading,
- prosperously,
- delighted,
- earn,
- gleam,
- prominent,
- coming,
- rapturous,
- in the money,
- impressive,
- shininess,
- therewith,
- succeed,
- subsequently,
- landed,
- palmy,
- striking,
- affluent,
- wow,
- exultant,
- excellent,
- well-known,
- blithesome,
- in the ascendant,
- straightaway,
- comfortable,
- swimmingly,
- in luxury,
- Overcoming,
- triple-crown,
- renowned,
- victoriously,
- straight,
- blest,
- consequently,
- shine,
- illustrious,
- accomplish,
- brilliant,
- nowadays,
- fortunately,
- culminate,
- winner,
- joyful,
- inform,
- Famed,
- achievement,
- loaded,
- flush,
- distinguished,
- prestige,
- gleeful,
- dominant,
- capable,
- pre-eminent,
- satisfy,
- high-flying,
- finish,
- sheen,
- sunny,
- go,
- merry,
- well-fixed,
- famous,
- divination,
- attain,
- conqueror,
- victor,
- augury,
- carry the day,
- fertile,
- achieve,
- smiling,
- admirable,
- top-rated,
- manage,
- forthwith,
- encouraging,
- satisfied,
- on top,
- accordingly,
- fulfill,
- best-selling,
- ascertain,
- realise,
- grandeur,
- boffo,
- DO,
- advise,
- successfulness,
- surefire,
- pass through,
- set up,
- roaring,
- effective,
- derive,
- favourable,
- discover,
- in,
- complete,
- meritorious,
- splendid,
- today,
- prosper,
- therefore,
- happily,
- marvellous,
- dignity,
- jubilant,
- triumphal,
- see,
- bang,
- proceed,
- shimmer,
- make,
- end,
- instantly,
- thrive,
- increasing,
- conquest,
- decency,
- impart,
- big,
- then,
- creditable,
- bourgeoning,
- ahead,
- huge,
- acquire,
- move,
- halcyon,
- degree,
- lush,
- Vanquishing,
- success,
- HIT,
- abundant,
- flowering,
- banner,
- conquering,
- felicitous,
- arrive at,
- towering,
- celebrated,
- well-heeled,
- blissful,
- self-made,
- productive,
- luxuriant,
- burgeoning,
- in good case,
- Defeating,
- now,
- be successful,
- notify,
- communicate,
- swimming,
- come,
- escape,
- disclose,
- in ascendancy,
- take by storm,
- sublime,
- assured of success,
- simultaneously,
- dexterous,
- succesful,
- lethal,
- competent,
- successfully,
- win the day,
- perform,
- superior,
- prosperity,
- score a success,
- sure-fire,
- jolly,
- blithe,
- realize,
- commit,
- exemplary,
- glow,
- prevailing,
- thereupon.
How to use «Successful» in context?
When people talk about «being successful,» what does that mean for them? Is it about making a lot of money? Having an impressive list of accomplishments? Generally, people think of success as someone who is doing well in life. However, being successful doesn’t have anything to do with measures like money, fame, power, or prestige. In fact, most successful people don’t live lives focused on material possessions and other external manifestations of success. Instead, they focus on finding their passion and using their skills to achieve success in their field.
Paraphrases for Successful:
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
unsuccessful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
able, acceptable, accomplished, affirmative, affluent, beautiful, beneficial, best, best-selling, bright, brilliant, candidate, chosen, conclusive, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fertile, fine, flourishing, fortunate, fruit, gratifying, helpful, inconclusive, ineffective, joyful, lucky, meaningful, nice, outcome, popular, progress, satisfying, smooth, suitable, talented, unsatisfactory, valid, viable, victorious, welcome, wonderful, workable, worthwhile, outcomes, results, well-functioning, high-performing, well-performing.
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Proper noun, singular
winners, milestones.
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Noun, plural
Victories, triumphs, accomplishments, albums.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
makes, results.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
constructive, cost-effective, effective, efficacious, excellent, fruitful, happy, productive, profitable, prosperous, qualified, rewarding, success, successfully, thriving, useful, valuable.
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Proper noun, singular
effective, success, successfully, Succeeded.
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Noun, plural
success.
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Verb, past tense
successfully.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
success.
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Adjective
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