Successful meaning in English
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Definition
successful: having a favorable outcome, victorious, fortunate, productive
to be successful (in): to succeed, to be doing well for oneself, to be fortunate (in)
Polly is successful in everything she does: she never fails.
successfully (completed): (completed) with success, with the desired result, with a favorable outcome
We ended the quarter successfully: the figures are great!
Examples
- "Donna : Lots of successful career women have babies and continue to be successful."
- "After undergoing successful therapy, I have now embarked upon the greatest endeavor of my career - becoming a painter."
- "If it's at all possible, I'd like this situation to be kept from Bruno until it is successfully resolved, so I ask you both to keep this low profile."
- "Bruno : Basically, the mayor wants to honor successful local corporations."
- "Wang Industries is the Shanghai-based parent company for a number of successful Chinese operations, mainly industrial companies, though Wang is diversifying his holdings rapidly."
- "His first attempts were quite successful."
- "You will continue to do business as usual, and we will continue to be successful."
- "Bruno : I've successfully secured the microphone to the dolphin's head."
- "I'm happy to report that our "sales road trip" to Los Angeles was a crashing success, in the sense that we successfully crashed the company car."
- "We represent the Delavigne Corporation, a successful perfume-"
- "Sam : Bruno, Bruno, these are the perks of working in a successful bank."
- "A successful perfume—"
- "To say thank you for all your hard work lately, and to celebrate our moderately successful first quarter sales, I'm pleased to announce that the senior staff of the Delavigne Corporation will be taking a team-building trip this weekend!"
- "Today is your lucky day: You've just discovered the most successful money-making enterprise in the history of the internet."
- "The Giants are the most successful team in the history of Japanese professional baseball."
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