successful
adjCA, US, UK /səkˈsɛs.fəl/ · AU, NZ /səkˈses.fəl/
Etymology From success + -ful.
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Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.
- a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
- 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: […] .2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
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- 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.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- Derived terms
- behind every successful man there stands a woman, megasuccessful, nonsuccessful, semisuccessful, successfully, successfulness, succsexful, supersuccessful
- Related terms
- success