"successful" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /səkˈsɛs.fl̩/ Audio: en-us-successful.ogg [US] Forms: more successful [comparative], most successful [superlative]
enPR: sək-sĕsʹfəl Etymology: success + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|success|ful|pos=adjective}} success + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} successful (comparative more successful, superlative most successful)
  1. Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect Synonyms: prosperous, fortunate, happy, efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable Synonyms (of requests): tithe [obsolete] Derived forms: behind every successful man there stands a woman, successfully, successfulness Related terms: success Translations (resulting in success): οὔριος (oúrios) (Ancient Greek), نَاجِح (nājiḥ) (Arabic), فَائِز (fāʔiz) (Arabic), مُوَفَّق (muwaffaq) (Arabic), uğurlu (Azerbaijani), müvəffəqiyyətli (Azerbaijani), arrakastatsu (Basque), паспяхо́вы (paspjaxóvy) (Belarusian), সফল (śophol) (Bengali), কামিয়াব (kamiẏab) (Bengali), успе́шен (uspéšen) (Bulgarian), reeixit (Catalan), 成功嘅 (sing⁴ gong¹ ge³) (Chinese Cantonese), 有成效的 (yǒu chéngxiào de) (Chinese Mandarin), 完滿 (Chinese Mandarin), 完满 (wánmǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 成功的 (chénggōng de) (Chinese Mandarin), muvaffaq (Crimean Tatar), úspěšný [masculine] (Czech), succesfuld (Danish), succesrig (Danish), succesvol (Dutch), geslaagd (Dutch), gelukt (Dutch), sukcesa (Esperanto), edukas (Estonian), õnnestunud (Estonian), onnistunut (Finnish), menestynyt (Finnish), menestyvä (Finnish), ayant du succès (French), marqué de succès (French), couronné de succès (French), წარმატებული (c̣armaṭebuli) (Georgian), erfolgreich (German), επιτυχημένος (epitychiménos) (Greek), επιτυχών (epitychón) (Greek), מוצלח (mutzlákh) (Hebrew), सफल (saphal) (Hindi), sikeres (Hungarian), eredményes (Hungarian), berhasil (Indonesian), áitheasach (Irish), di successo (Italian), coronato dal successo (Italian), riuscito (Italian), 成功した (seikō shita) (alt: せいこうした) (Japanese), 성공적 (seonggongjeok) (alt: 成功的) (Korean), 성공(成功)한 (seonggonghan) (Korean), prosper (Latin), prosperus (Latin), ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈ (ṫoktii¹) (), ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈᦔᦲᧃᦡᦲ (ṫoktii¹ṗiinḋii) (), у́спешен (úspešen) (Macedonian), berjaya (Malay), momoho (Maori), angitu (Maori), vellykket (Norwegian Bokmål), vellukka (Norwegian Nynorsk), spēdiġ (Old English), موفق (movaffaq) (Persian), کامگار (kâmgâr) (Persian), udany (Polish), bem-sucedido (Portuguese), conseguido (Portuguese), próspero [masculine] (Portuguese), reușit (Romanian), izbutit (Romanian), plin de succes (Romanian), успе́шный (uspéšnyj) (Russian), благополу́чный (blagopolúčnyj) (Russian), уда́чный (udáčnyj) (Russian), सफल (saphala) (Sanskrit), успешан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), успјешан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), uspešan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), uspješan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), úspešný [masculine] (Slovak), uspešen (Slovene), exitoso (Spanish), logrado (Spanish), afortunado (Spanish), de éxito (Spanish), lyckad (Swedish), framgångsrik (Swedish), muvaffak (Turkish), başarılı (Turkish), успі́шний (uspíšnyj) (Ukrainian), вда́тний (vdátnyj) (Ukrainian), سپھل (saphal) (Urdu), thành công (Vietnamese), הצלחהדיק (hatslokhedik) (Yiddish)

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          "word": "prosperous"
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          "word": "happy"
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          "word": "efficacious"
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          "word": "effective"
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          "sense": "resulting in success",
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          "sense": "resulting in success",
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          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "uğurlu"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "müvəffəqiyyətli"
        },
        {
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "arrakastatsu"
        },
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "paspjaxóvy",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "паспяхо́вы"
        },
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          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "śophol",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "সফল"
        },
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          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "kamiẏab",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "কামিয়াব"
        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "uspéšen",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "успе́шен"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "reeixit"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "sing⁴ gong¹ ge³",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "成功嘅"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǒu chéngxiào de",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "有成效的"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "完滿"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wánmǎn",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "完满"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chénggōng de",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "成功的"
        },
        {
          "code": "crh",
          "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "muvaffaq"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "úspěšný"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "succesfuld"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "succesrig"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "succesvol"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "geslaagd"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "gelukt"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "sukcesa"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "edukas"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "õnnestunud"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "onnistunut"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "menestynyt"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "menestyvä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "ayant du succès"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "marqué de succès"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "couronné de succès"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣armaṭebuli",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "წარმატებული"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "erfolgreich"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epitychiménos",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "επιτυχημένος"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epitychón",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "επιτυχών"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "oúrios",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "οὔριος"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "mutzlákh",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "מוצלח"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "saphal",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "सफल"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "sikeres"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "eredményes"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "berhasil"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "áitheasach"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "di successo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "coronato dal successo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "riuscito"
        },
        {
          "alt": "せいこうした",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "seikō shita",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "成功した"
        },
        {
          "alt": "成功的",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "seonggongjeok",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "성공적"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "seonggonghan",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "성공(成功)한"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "prosper"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "prosperus"
        },
        {
          "code": "khb",
          "lang": "Lü",
          "roman": "ṫoktii¹",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈ"
        },
        {
          "code": "khb",
          "lang": "Lü",
          "roman": "ṫoktii¹ṗiinḋii",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈᦔᦲᧃᦡᦲ"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "úspešen",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "у́спешен"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "berjaya"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "momoho"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "angitu"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "vellykket"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "vellukka"
        },
        {
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "spēdiġ"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "movaffaq",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "موفق"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kâmgâr",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "کامگار"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "udany"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "bem-sucedido"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "conseguido"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "próspero"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "reușit"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "izbutit"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "plin de succes"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uspéšnyj",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "успе́шный"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "blagopolúčnyj",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "благополу́чный"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "udáčnyj",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "уда́чный"
        },
        {
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "saphala",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "सफल"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "успешан"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "успјешан"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "uspešan"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "uspješan"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "úspešný"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "uspešen"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "exitoso"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "logrado"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "afortunado"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "de éxito"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "lyckad"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "framgångsrik"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "muvaffak"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "başarılı"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "uspíšnyj",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "успі́шний"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "vdátnyj",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "вда́тний"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "saphal",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "سپھل"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "thành công"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "hatslokhedik",
          "sense": "resulting in success",
          "word": "הצלחהדיק"
        }
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    }
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    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
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      "enpr": "sək-sĕsʹfəl"
    }
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}
{
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      "word": "unsuccessful"
    },
    {
      "word": "failed"
    }
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    {
      "word": "behind every successful man there stands a woman"
    },
    {
      "word": "successfully"
    },
    {
      "word": "successfulness"
    }
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        "pos": "adjective"
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    }
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      "form": "more successful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most successful",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "word": "success"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Belarusian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Georgian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Macedonian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Urdu terms with redundant script codes",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion",
          "text": "If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27",
          "text": "The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…]\"share the things you love with the world\" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.",
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        }
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      ],
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          "success",
          "success"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "prosperous"
        },
        {
          "word": "fortunate"
        },
        {
          "word": "happy"
        }
      ]
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    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/En-us-successful.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "sək-sĕsʹfəl"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "efficacious"
    },
    {
      "word": "effective"
    },
    {
      "word": "fruitful"
    },
    {
      "word": "rewarding"
    },
    {
      "word": "accomplished"
    },
    {
      "word": "profitable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of requests",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "tithe"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nājiḥ",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "نَاجِح"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fāʔiz",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "فَائِز"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "muwaffaq",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "مُوَفَّق"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "uğurlu"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "müvəffəqiyyətli"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "arrakastatsu"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "paspjaxóvy",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "паспяхо́вы"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "śophol",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "সফল"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "kamiẏab",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "কামিয়াব"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "uspéšen",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "успе́шен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "reeixit"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "sing⁴ gong¹ ge³",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "成功嘅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǒu chéngxiào de",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "有成效的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "完滿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wánmǎn",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "完满"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chénggōng de",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "成功的"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "muvaffaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "úspěšný"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "succesfuld"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "succesrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "succesvol"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "geslaagd"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "gelukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "sukcesa"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "edukas"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "õnnestunud"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "onnistunut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "menestynyt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "menestyvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "ayant du succès"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "marqué de succès"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "couronné de succès"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣armaṭebuli",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "წარმატებული"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "erfolgreich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epitychiménos",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "επιτυχημένος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epitychón",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "επιτυχών"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "oúrios",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "οὔριος"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mutzlákh",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "מוצלח"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "saphal",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "सफल"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "sikeres"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "eredményes"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "berhasil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "áitheasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "di successo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "coronato dal successo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "riuscito"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいこうした",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seikō shita",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "成功した"
    },
    {
      "alt": "成功的",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seonggongjeok",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "성공적"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seonggonghan",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "성공(成功)한"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "prosper"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "prosperus"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "ṫoktii¹",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈ"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "ṫoktii¹ṗiinḋii",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "ᦷᦎᧅᦑᦲᧈᦔᦲᧃᦡᦲ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "úspešen",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "у́спешен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "berjaya"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "momoho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "angitu"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "vellykket"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "vellukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "spēdiġ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "movaffaq",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "موفق"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kâmgâr",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "کامگار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "udany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "bem-sucedido"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "conseguido"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "próspero"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "reușit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "izbutit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "plin de succes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uspéšnyj",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "успе́шный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blagopolúčnyj",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "благополу́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udáčnyj",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "уда́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "saphala",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "सफल"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "успешан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "успјешан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "uspešan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "uspješan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "úspešný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "uspešen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "exitoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "logrado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "afortunado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "de éxito"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "lyckad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "framgångsrik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "muvaffak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "başarılı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "uspíšnyj",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "успі́шний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vdátnyj",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "вда́тний"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "saphal",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "سپھل"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "thành công"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "hatslokhedik",
      "sense": "resulting in success",
      "word": "הצלחהדיק"
    }
  ],
  "word": "successful"
}

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