success

n.

1. 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. *

2. 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.

   Antonyms defeat*, loss*, disaster. *

3. 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*. *

   Antonyms failure*, loser*, nonentity.