success
suc·cess (sək ses′)
noun
- Obsolete result; outcome
- a favorable or satisfactory outcome or result
- something having such an outcome
- the gaining of wealth, fame, rank, etc.
- a successful person
Etymology: L successus < pp. of succedere: see succeed
success
n.
The fact of succeeding
achieving, gaining, prospering, attaining, accomplishing, progressing, advancing, triumphing, making a fortune, finishing, completion, consummation, doing, culmination, conclusion, termination, resolution, completion, end, attainment, realization, maturation, breakthrough, victory, triumph, accomplishment, benefiting, profiting, having good luck, being out in front*, making a noise in the world*, making a ten strike*. Antonyms
failure*, disappointment*, failing. * The fact of having succeeded to a high degree
fortune, good luck, achievement, gain, benefit, prosperity, victory, advance, attainment, progress, profit, prosperous issue, the life of Riley, bed of roses, favorable outcome. A successful person or thing
celebrity, famous person, leader, authority, master, expert, man of fortune, somebody*, star*, gallery hit*, bell-ringer*, VIP*, tops*, smash*, worldbeater*. *
Converse of object
- achieve: The first Building Control team to achieve four successes in Charter Mark, the latter being the new Charter Mark Standard.
- celebrate: Celebrating Success Meeting, Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, November 11th 2003.
- enjoy: Wales Environment Trust has enjoyed considerable success over recent months.
- prove: A pioneering program to help stop young people falling into a life of crime is proving a success.
- hail: Telcora Interconnect Fraud & Revenue Leakage Training hailed a great success by Cable & Wireless.
- ensure: With our support, you'll have the tools and the knowledge you need to ensure success!
Adjective modifier
- huge: Already a huge success in Asian markets, the drink has now been adapted to Western tastes.
- resounding: The weekend was a resounding success, enjoyed by all that attended.
- continued: We wish her continued success in all she does.
- great: He will play the role, in which he had a great success on Broadway, for a limited run of six weeks.
- phenomenal: Last weekend was a phenomenal success with many studios inundated by visitors.
- tremendous: This project can only be hailed as a tremendous success.
Modifies a noun
- story: The consumer success stories of the internet will be the future success stories of mobile.
- story: On aid, we do have a success story to report.
- rate: Used properly, these products can double the success rate of stopping smoking.
- factor: Let me now turn to my primary assignment, the identification of the success factors.
- fee: On 27 August 2003, the costs judge held that the success fee was reasonable.
Noun used with modifier
- sell-out: Judging by the response we have had, we believe that this development will soon be a sell-out success.
- chart: Donovan's chart success was an important part of the second half of the sixties.
- breeding: Habitats with a plentiful supply of field voles appeared to support greater breeding success in barn owls.
No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a fewand carried in the heart of none.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you goahead and doitand youargueabout whatto doabout it onlyafter you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
Eighty percent of success is showing-up.
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
The 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphöon the level to which it belongs.
I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.
He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
Remember there is no success without hard work.
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
He was a self-made manwho owed his lackof successto nobody.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide.With failure comes failure.
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success 442 and miscarriage are empty sounds.
There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
Success hath made me wanton.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.
Tell all theTruth but tell it slantö Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.
Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.
No onecanguaranteesuccessinwar, butonlydeserveit.
Success is a great deodorant.
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.
That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
To travel hopefully is a better thing thantoarrive, and the true success is to labour.
Den stolzen Sieger stu« rzt sein eignes Glu« ck. The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
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