Success

Noun

 * 1) The achievement of one's aim or goal.
 * His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
 * 1)  financial profitability.
 * 2) One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
 * Scholastically, he was a success.
 * The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

Antonyms

 * failure

Derived terms

 * successful
 * successfully
 * material success
 * financial success
 * social success
 * spiritual success

Adjectives for Success
scholastic; undoubted; international; popular; bad; social; pretentious; booming; enduring; grand; prodigious; mounting; continued; alternate; dawning; instantaneous; pecuniary; inferior; competitive; particular; tremendous; unexampled; imperial; un-reached; triumphant; checkered; immense; precocious; transient; superficial; proper; political; indifferent; ill; clumsy; material; brilliant; emphatic; petty; overawed; ultimate; gratifying; enduring; lasting; unbroken; substantial; howling; phenomenal; significant; outstanding; fugitive; considerable; conspicuous; soaring; universal; overnight; amazing; sensational; artistic; perfect; superb; grandiose; ephemeral; commercial; financial; poor; youthful; extraordinary; definite; prompt; unqualified; dramatic; equal; dubious; established; signal; double; spontaneous; notable; permanent, marvelous; facile; astonishing; monetary; evanescent; sufficient; well-merited; temporary; economic; noticeable; growing; worldly; eventual; reigning.

Verbs for Success
achieve—; aspire to—; assure—; attain—; attend with—; beset—; claim—; correlate —; crown with—; earn—; enjoy—; fight to—; flush with—; glean—; hinder—; im¬pede—; jeopardize—; predict—; reckon with—; score—; secure—; smash into—; taste—; train for—; —arises; —attests to; —blasts; —comes; —completes; —crowns; —embitters; —emboldens; —encourages; — hails; —hinges; —insures; —paves; —pays for; —pursues; —signalizes; —springs; — tempts; —wears.

Thesaurus
Cadmean victory, Easy Street, Grand Guignol, KO, Passion play, Pyrrhic victory, Tom show, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, affluence, antimasque, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, audience success, ballet, bed of roses, big name, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, carrying out, celebrity, championship, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, clover, comedy drama, comer, comfort, conquest, consummation, critical success, daytime serial, deanship, dialogue, discharge, dispatch, do, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, ease, easy circumstances, easy victory, effectuation, epic theater, excellence, execution, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fait accompli, favor, felicity, fleshpots, flop, fruition, fulfillment, gasser, giveaway, go, good fortune, gracious life, gracious living, grand slam, greatness, happening, happiness, hit, hit show, implementation, improvisational drama, incomparability, inimitability, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, lap of luxury, lead, legitimate drama, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, majority, masque, mastery, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, mission accomplished, monodrama, monologue, moral victory, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, one-upmanship, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, performance, picnic, piece, play, playlet, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, problem play, production, prosperity, prosperousness, psychodrama, pushover, quiz show, radio drama, realization, review, revue, right-of-way, runaway victory, security, seniority, sensation, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skill, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, star, straight drama, subdual, subduing, superiority, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, the affluent life, the good life, theater of cruelty, thriving condition, total theater, total victory, transcendence, transcendency, triumph, upward mobility, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, velvet, victor, victory, virtuosity, walkaway, walkover, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, win, winner, winning, winning streak, word-of-mouth success, work

Etymology
From successus, from verb succedere.

Translations

 * Arabic: نجاح
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 * Hungarian:, kimenetel
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 * Japanese: (, seikō)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: سه‌رکه‌وتن
 * Luxembourgish: Succès
 * Norwegian: suksess
 * Polish: powodzenie,
 * Romanian: succes, succese
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: úspech
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 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: లక్ష్యాన్ని చేరుట
 * Turkish: başarı
 * Ukrainian: успіх


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: menestys, voitollisuus
 * Hungarian:


 * Romanian: succes
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: ఆర్ధిక స్తొమత


 * Finnish: menestyjä
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: سه‌رکه‌وتو


 * Telugu: సాధకుడు లేక సాధకురాలు


 * : הצלחה (hatzlakhah)
 * : सफलता (safalta)


 * : 성공 (seonggong)
 * : sucesso
 * : సఫలము (saphalamu)