| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
Synonyms: |
Easy Street, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses, benefit, big hit, boom*, clover, consummation, do well, eminence, fame, flying colors, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, good times, grand slam, gravy train, happiness, happy days, hit, killing, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, successfulness, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, éclat |
Antonyms: |
failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
crowned with success, effective, epinician, felicitous, flushed with success, in full swing, in the ascendant, prosperous, set up, succeeding, successful, triumphant, unbeaten, victorious, well
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| Main Entry: | achievement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something completed successfully; goal reached |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, act, actualization, attainment, completion, conquest, consummation, contrivance, creation, deed, effectuation, effort, enactment, encompassment, execution, exploit, feat, fulfillment, hit, masterpiece, performance, production, realization, stroke, success, tour de force, triumph, victory |
Antonyms: |
defeat, failure, forfeit, injury, miscue, misfortune, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | best-seller |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top-selling item |
Synonyms: |
a top ten, chart-buster, favorite, hit*, hot item, hot seller, mover, number one, record-breaker, success, winner |
Antonyms: |
failure, flop |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
Synonyms: |
acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
Antonyms: |
failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | effectiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influence |
Synonyms: |
capability, clout, cogency, effect, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, performance, point, potency, power, punch, strength, success, use, validity, validness, verve, vigor, weight |
Antonyms: |
ineffectiveness, unproductivity, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | efficacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efficiency; productiveness |
Synonyms: |
ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight |
| Notes: | if something is efficacious, it is able to produce the desired result; efficacy means the power to produce effects |
Antonyms: |
failure, inefficacy, inefficiency, unproductiveness, uselessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, fluke, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky break, lucky hit, portion, providence, roll of the dice, run of luck, star, streak of luck, success, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, actualization, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, materialization, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, ripeness, satisfaction, success |
Antonyms: |
failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening |
Antonyms: |
abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |