successful

English

Etymology

success +‎ -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsfl̩/

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Adjective

successful (comparative more successful, superlative most successful)

1. Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

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

   Synonyms: prosperous, fortunate, happy

Synonyms

• efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable
• See also Thesaurus:prosperous
• (of requests): tithe (obs.)

Antonyms

• unsuccessful
• failed

Derived terms

• successfully
• successfulness

Related terms

• success

Translations

resulting in success

• Arabic: نَاجِح (nājiḥ), فَائِز (fāʔiz), مُوَفَّق (muwaffaq)
• Basque: arrakastatsu
• Belarusian: паспяхо́вы (paspjaxóvy)
• Bengali: সফল (śophol)
• Bulgarian: успе́шен (bg) (uspéšen)
• Catalan: exitós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有成效的 (zh) (yǒu chéngxiào de), 完滿／完满 (zh) (wánmǎn), 完满 (zh) (wánmǎn), 成功的 (zh) (chénggōng de)

• Czech: úspěšný (cs)
• Dutch: succesvol (nl), geslaagd (nl), gelukt (nl)
• Esperanto: sukcesa
• Estonian: edukas, õnnestunud
• Finnish: onnistunut (fi), menestynyt, menestyvä
• French: ayant du succès, marqué de succès, couronné de succès (fr)
• Georgian: წარმატებული (c̣armaṭebuli)
• German: erfolgreich (de)
• Greek: επιτυχημένος (el) (epitychiménos), επιτυχών (el) (epitychón)

  Ancient: οὔριος (oúrios)

• Hebrew: מוצלח (mutzlákh)
• Hindi: सफल (hi) (saphal)
• Hungarian: sikeres (hu), eredményes (hu)
• Irish: áitheasach
• Italian: di successo, coronato dal successo, riuscito, efficace (effective), ben riuscito, andato a buon fine
• Japanese: 成功した (ja) (せいこうした, seikō shita)
• Korean: 성공한 (seonggonghan)
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• Latin: prosper, prosperus
• Lü: ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈ (ṫoktii¹), ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈᦔᦲᧃᦡᦲ (ṫoktii¹ṗiinḋii)
• Macedonian: у́спешен (úspešen)
• Maori: momoho, angitu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vellykket

  Nynorsk: vellukka

• Old English: forþgenge
• Persian: موفق (fa) (movaffaq), کامگار (fa) (kâmgâr)
• Polish: udany (pl)
• Portuguese: bem-sucedido (pt), conseguido (pt), próspero (pt) m
• Romanian: reușit (ro), izbutit (ro), plin de succes
• Russian: успе́шный (ru) (uspéšnyj), благополу́чный (ru) (blagopolúčnyj), уда́чный (ru) (udáčnyj)
• Sanskrit: सफल (sa) (saphala)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: успешан, успјешан

  Roman: uspešan (sh), uspješan (sh)

• Slovak: úspešný m
• Slovene: uspešen
• Spanish: exitoso, triunfador, conseguido (es), afortunado (es) m, próspero (es) m
• Swedish: lyckad (sv), framgångsrik (sv)
• Turkish: muvaffaklar pl, muvaffak (tr)
• Ukrainian: успі́шний (uspíšnyj), вда́тний (vdátnyj)
• Urdu: سپھل (saphal)
• Vietnamese: thành công (vi)
• Yiddish: הצלחהדיק (hatslokhedik)