successful
having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,541 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,666 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome a successful architecta successful business venture
successful in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The arts of industry have treasures for successful inventors.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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The successful women are those who know how to toady in the right way and not obviously.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Successful in all his examinations and disputations, he received the degree of Doctor of Law at Nuremberg in 1676.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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During all these years the gay young "university wit" of earlier days was probably forgotten in the venerable and successful physician.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1