VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / successful

Thesaurus: successful

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a succ…

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

successdefinitionfortunatedefinitionhappydefinitionprosperousdefinitionaccomplishingdefinitionassuringdefinitiondesireddefinitioneffectdefinitionenterprisedefinitionexperimentdefinitionhencedefinitionmedicinedefinitionpromotivedefinitionproposeddefinitionresultingdefinitionsucceededdefinitioncessdefinitionfavorabledefinitionFuldefinitionmarkeddefinitionnephewsdefinitionoutcomedefinitionwarsdefinitionwelcomedefinitionauspiciousdefinitionluckydefinitionnessdefinitionseedefinition

Definitions

  1. a. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
  2. adj. having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
  3. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak. Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. -- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
  4. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success;accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence,prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; asuccessful experiment; a successful enterprise.Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.
  5. j:100 a. having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome