One entry found for successful.

Entry Word: successful
Function: adjective
Text: 1 having attained a desired end or state of good fortune <the family runs several successful restaurants>
Synonyms flourishing, going, palmy, prosperous, thriving, triumphant
Related Words coming, promising; booming, growing, roaring, robust
Near Antonyms futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, no-good; collapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing-out; declining, slipping, slumping, waning; bankrupt, destroyed, ruined, wrecked
Antonyms failed, unsuccessful
2 marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically <sold their successful dry-cleaning business and retired to Hawaii> -- see PROSPEROUS 1