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successful
/ səkˈsɛsfʊl /
adjective
having succeeded in one's endeavours
marked by a favourable outcome
having obtained fame, wealth, etc
Other Word Forms
- successfulness noun
- successfully adverb
- half-successful adjective
- half-successfully adverb
- half-successfulness noun
- nonsuccessful adjective
- nonsuccessfully adverb
- presuccessful adjective
- presuccessfully adverb
- quasi-successful adjective
- quasi-successfully adverb
- semisuccessful adjective
- semisuccessfully adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of successful1
Example Sentences
“Red Chamber” proved successful enough for a rare revival in 2022, but it never became the kind of sensation that “Monkey” boasts.
The report found Patel “has neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing an FBI director needs to be successful.”
The first successful attempt to access the document was recorded at 11:35 U.K. time.
He later described the talks as "productive and successful" while Rubio said they had been "very productive and useful".
Until this weekend, the most successful Hollywood movie this year in China was “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which grossed a total of $79 million there.
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When To Use
The word successful is hard to spell because it can be hard to know which letters are doubled. Both the c and the middle s are doubled, but the f and l are not. How to spell successful: To be a success, you need to see (two Cs) Some Smarts (two Ss). This reminds you that success is spelled with a double C in the middle and a double S at the end. To spell successful, you add the base word (success) to the suffix -ful.
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