successful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
    • a successful architect
    • a successful business venture

WordNet

Suc*cess"ful adjective
Definitions
  1. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
    Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.
    Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. -- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n.

Webster 1913