Antonyms for successful
səkˈsɛs fəlsuc·cess·ful

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1. successfuladjective

   Antonyms:
   unsuccessful, failed

   Synonyms:
   efficacious, profitable, effective, accomplished, fruitful, rewarding

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.

   Antonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched

   Synonyms:
   favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous

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1. successful

   Synonyms:
   lucky, fortunate, happy, auspicious, prosperous

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

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, victorious, triumphant, fortunate

How to use successful in a sentence?

1. Scott Walker:

   After one joined, others quickly followed, a few of his friends would see how successful he was becoming, but more important, that he felt fulfilled in his career, enjoyed running his business and was simply having fun.

2. Daniel Wells:

   As we know firsthand, Amazon's business model too often neglects the well-being of the workers who make the e-commerce giant so incredibly successful.

3. James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2-3-03:

   There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

4. Washington Post:

   The phone of his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, was successfully infected during the days after his murder ... and (his) wife, Hanan Elatr, whose phone was targeted by someone using Pegasus in the months before his killing. Amnesty was unable to determine whether the hack was successful.

5. Koch Industries spokesman Ken Spain:

   If politicians or political organizations decide to double down on falsely attacking the reputations of Koch Industries, its shareholders, and 60,000 American employees, it is likely to be as successful as it was in 2014.

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