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. Warren Ferguson:

   What are some of the facilitators and barriers to establishing those programs? what are some of the adaptations that need to be made for that to be successful?

2. The SPCA:

   Ralphie’s previous trainer will provide his new adopters with the training tools they believe he needs to be successful in a home.

3. Nick Merrill:

   As she decides, she's casting a wide net and wants to hear from a variety of people on a range of specific topics, from policy ideas to what a successful campaign would look like.

4. Robert Daly:

   They’re probably going to do some chalkboard diplomacy that will enable Trump to have a successful summit at Mar-a-Lago, xi just wants to stabilize the relationship for the rest of this year.

5. Hope Cronin:

   CROWS efforts have been successful in identifying the highest risk cyber vulnerabilities and then working with the program offices to develop mitigation solutions to reduce those risks.

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