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SUCCESSFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
Example:
a successful business venture
Classified under:
Similar:
boffo (resoundingly successful and popular)
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving (very lively and profitable)
in (holding office)
made (successful or assured of success)
no-hit (of a game (or the pitching) in which a pitcher allows the opponent no hits)
productive (yielding positive results)
self-made (having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts)
sure-fire (certain to be successful)
triple-crown (unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in)
triple-crown (of a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness races)
victorious; winning (having won)
Also:
undefeated (victorious)
fortunate (having unexpected good fortune)
productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))
Attribute:
success (a state of prosperity or fame)
Antonym:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
Derivation:
successfulness (the condition of prospering; having good fortune)
Context examples:
Yes, here we are—three days later. ‘Am making successful arrangements.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mechanism was believed to involve a membrane bound ER but attempts to isolate such a protein have not been successful.
(Pelp1 Estrogen Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
He will become eventually a very great and successful newspaper man. He has no conscience. That alone will make him great.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Cells in which this transfer is successful are then injected into mouse embryos, producing chimeric mice.
(Knock-Out Mouse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It was not the first time in his long and successful life that this thing had happened.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This was a successful defense of his 2017 title won in London, United Kingdom.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
Although titanosaurs became one of the most successful dinosaur groups before the mass extinction capping the Age of Dinosaurs, their early evolutionary history remains obscure, and Mnyamawamtuka helps reveal those beginnings.
(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
Given the importance of maintaining an adequate balance of these mechanisms to promote more successful pregnancies, the results of the present study could be relevant to the clinical setting.
(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)
DNA constructs that are composed of, at least, a REPLICATION ORIGIN, for successful replication, propagation to and maintenance as an extra chromosome in bacteria.
(Bacterial Artificial Chromosome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
