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UK
/səksˈɛsfəl/
]
[ US /səkˈsɛsfəɫ/ ]
[ US /səkˈsɛsfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
a successful architect
a successful business venture
How To Use successful In A Sentence
- My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
- Traditional methods for liquid or semiliquid fecal incontinence management, such as the use of absorbent briefs/pads, skin cleansers, and moisturizers, are only moderately successful in alleviating the consequences of fecal incontinence. New Data Shows Budget Impact of Fecal Management System in Hospital ICU
- So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir. Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
- Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- It would seem that efforts to train stalkers to high standards have been successful, and I would agree with that conclusion.
- Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
- Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
- The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
- The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
- They overcome fear and become strong and successful. The Guide to Greatness in Sales