SUCCESSFUL

successful. Successful, a. prosperous, fortunate, happy, kind

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Suc‐cess″ful (?), a. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak. Syn. — Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. — Suc‐cess″ful‐ly, adv. — Suc‐cess″ful‐ness, n.