Synonyms for successful
səkˈsɛs fəlsuc·cess·ful

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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

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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

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1. successful

   Synonyms:
   lucky, fortunate, happy, auspicious, prosperous

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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

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1. successfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   prosperous, fortunate, lucky, auspicious, felicitous

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1. successfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate

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1. 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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1. Former EU agriculture commissioner Hogan:

   I didn't expect to be successful in resetting the relationship in two days.

2. Tom Cole:

   They're all playing into the anger. We had a pretty successful year last year and Republican presidential candidates telling Republican voters that the Republican Congress is the problem I think is exceptionally short sighted.

3. Bill Kottenstette:

   As students and parents become more familiar with virtual learning and how students can be successful in a virtual environment -- and as the' system' gets better at providing more effective virtual learning options -- there will be more students from brick-and-mortar environments choosing a virtual option.

4. Chris Mason:

   If the AMD trials are successful, then by using embryonic stem cells as the starting material, the therapy can then be affordably manufactured at large scale.

5. Nick Saban:

   You've got to focus on the next play and do what you have to do, to do your job (and) to help your team be successful, i think that's where you want the players to stay focused, and that's the message that we're trying to give them so that they can go out and have the best opportunity to be successful.