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. Yanis Varoufakis:

   We want a successful Europe, a successful currency union.

2. Tom Whitmeyer:

   Liquid hydrogen is at a negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit( negative 268 degrees Celsius), liquid oxygen is negative 273( negative 169 degrees Celsius), so it's very cold substances, i used to participate in this back in the Shuttle Program and it's like watching a ballet. You've got pressure, volume and temperature. And you're really kind of working all those parameters to have a successful tanking operation.

3. Roger Goodell:

   Listen, we’ve raised this the last two years: It’s a challenge, i think the things that made us successful was keeping safety first. Second, being willing to adapt at all times. It’s clear even in the last couple of weeks that the changes are pretty significant and different than they were before, and I think it calls to modifications to our protocols in general, and we’re working with the players association on that.

4. Charles Lichfield:

   There has been fairly successful substitution, mainly for food, and on some other parts that go into industrial goods... but it's mainly been on the lower end of the economic scale.

5. Donald Trump on Thursday:

   So I have a belt: Somebody hits me with a belt, it's going in because the belt moves this way. It moves this way, it moves that way, he hit the belt buckle. Anybody have a knife? Want to try it on me? Believe me, it ain't gonna work. You're going to be successful, but he took the knife and went like this and he plunged it into the belt and, amazing, the belt stayed totally flat and the knife broke.