successful

/səkˈsɛsfəl/

/səkˈsɛsfəl/

If you win or do well, at whatever it is you do, you are successful. Successful people usually get more money, attention, and praise.

If you go into business and make a lot of money, you're successful. If you play tennis and finish the season with more wins than losses, you've been successful. If you have a successful pregnancy, you give birth to a healthy baby. Successful is one of those words that covers a great deal of ground; it generally applies to anything, anyone or any venture that ends well. When you see the word successful, think "Winning!"

Definitions of successful

1. adjective

   having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
   “a successful architect”

   “a successful business venture”

   synonyms:

   undefeated

   victorious

   fortunate

   having unexpected good fortune

   productive

   producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)

   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

   antonyms:

   unsuccessful

   not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

   defeated

   beaten or overcome; not victorious

   unfortunate

   not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune

   unprofitable

   producing little or no profit or gain

   attempted

   tried unsuccessfully

   defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted

   disappointingly unsuccessful

   done for, ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up

   doomed to extinction

   down-and-out

   lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

   empty-handed, unrewarded

   having acquired or gained nothing

   hitless

   (of a batter) without a hit

   no-win

   certain to end in failure and disappointment

   out

   out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election

   goalless, hitless, scoreless

   having no points scores

   self-defeating

   acting to defeat its own purpose

   unfulfilled, unrealised, unrealized

   of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities

   unplaced

   not one of the first three in a race or competition

   winless

   having no wins