successful
adjective
achieving or having achieved success.
half-successful
-
a word derived from
successful.
Example Sentences
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The mash-up vibe is a little less morally idiotic than it appeared from the movie’s advance trailers, if only because the characters come off less like digital automatons and more like half-successful cosplayers.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
But they are like Heathers who have undergone half-successful aversion therapy.
From Time ● Apr. 5, 2012
I’ve seen a lot of half-successful American and British productions of Chekhov.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2011
"Gramm-Rudman has helped, but it's a little like a half-successful birth-control method," mused Lynn Martin, an Illinois Republican who serves on the House Budget Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally, the work is triumphant, fails, or is only half-successful.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
