"successful" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /səkˈsɛsfl̩/ Audio: en-us-successful.ogg [US] Forms: successful [positive], more successful [comparative], most successful [superlative]
Etymology: success + -ful Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|success|ful}} success + -ful Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you are successful, you are effective at something.
    Sense id: simple-successful-en-adj-2ABictGg
  2. If you have done something right, you are successful.
    Sense id: simple-successful-en-adj-YiNcdcez
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ful
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