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successful

  • adjective
  • sək-sĕsʹfəl

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

Example

“a successful use of medicine;  a successful experiment;  a successful enterprise”

Related words

  • megasuccessful
  • nonsuccessful
  • semisuccessful
  • succsexful
  • supersuccessful
  • successfully
  • successfulness

Example sentences

  • “The musician releases her less successful works into the public domain.”

    Tatoeba · hecko · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “successful” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.