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Webster 1913 Edition
Successful
Suc-cess′ful
,Adj.
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy;
as, a
. successful
use of medicine; a successful
experiment; a successful
enterpriseWelcome, nephews, from
successful
wars. Shakespeare
Syn. – Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See
– Fortunate
. Suc-cess′ful-ly
, adv.
Suc-cess′ful-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Successful
SUCCESS'FUL
,Adj.
1.
In a bad sense; as a successful attempt to subvert the constitution.Definition 2024
successful
successful
English
Adjective
successful (comparative more successful, superlative most successful)
- Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
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Synonyms
- efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable
- (of requests): tithe (obs.)
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Translations
resulting in success
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