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| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
| Synonyms: | éclat, Easy Street*, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses*, benefit, boom*, consummation, eminence, fame, flying colors*, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, gravy train*, happiness, hit, killing, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, triumph, victory, walkaway*, win, big hit, clover, do well, good times, grand slam, happy days, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, successfulness, walkover |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| 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, acquisition, act, attainment, completion, conquest, consummation, contrivance, creation, deed, effort, enactment, execution, exploit, feat, fulfillment, hit, masterpiece, performance, production, realization, stroke, success, tour de force, triumph, victory, acquirement, actualization, effectuation, encompassment |
| Antonyms: | defeat, failure, forfeit, injury, miscue, misfortune, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | best-seller |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top-selling item |
| Synonyms: | favorite, hit*, number one, success, winner, a top ten, chart-buster, hot item, hot seller, mover, record-breaker |
| Antonyms: | failure, flop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effectiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influence |
| Synonyms: | capability, clout, cogency, effect, efficacy, efficiency, force, performance, point, potency, power, punch, strength, success, use, validity, verve, vigor, weight, forcefulness, validness |
| Antonyms: | ineffectiveness, unproductivity, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | efficacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efficiency; productiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adequacy, capability, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight, capableness, efficaciousness |
| Notes: | if something is efficacious, it is able to produce the desired result; efficacy means the power to produce effects |
| Antonyms: | failure, inefficiency, weakness, inefficacy, unproductiveness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, satisfaction, success, actualization, materialization, ripeness |
| Antonyms: | failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | prosperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affluence, good fortune |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accomplishment, advantage, arrival, bed of roses*, benefit, boom, do, ease*, easy street*, exorbitance, expansion, flying colors*, fortune, good, gravy train*, growth, increase, inflation, interest, luxury, opulence, plenty, riches, success, thriving, velvet, victory, wealth, welfare, well-being, clover, good times, high on the hog, life of luxury, plenteousness, prosperousness, successfulness, the good life |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss, poorness, poverty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tour de force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacular achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, attainment, conquest, deed, exploit, feat, magnum opus, master stroke, masterpiece, performance, piece de resistance, success, triumph, victory, chef-d'oeuvre, feat of strength, grand achievement, great achievement, masterwork, stroke of genius |
| Main Entry: | welfare/well-being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | health and prosperity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, advantage, benefit, contentment, ease, easy street*, euphoria, felicity, good, happiness, interest, luck, profit, progress, satisfaction, success, thriving, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | win |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victory |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, conquest, gain, gold*, kill*, killing*, pay dirt*, score, slam, success, sweep, triumph, gold star |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | welfare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prosperity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, advantage, benefit, contentment, ease, euphoria, felicity, good, happiness, health, interest, luck, profit, progress, satisfaction, success, thriving, well-being, east street, good fortune, pogey |
| Main Entry: | well-being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good health or fortune |
| Synonyms: | comfort, contentment, happiness, health, profit, prosperity, protection, safety, security, success, welfare, eudaemonia |
| Antonyms: | ill-being |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win*, conquering, coup, discomfiture, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, score, splash*, success, triumph, win, clean sweep, defeating, grand slam, routing, subdual, subjection, subjugation, takeover, vanquishment |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, augmentation, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, expansion, extension, flowering, gain, hike, improvement, increase, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, success, surge, swell, up, vegetation, aggrandizement, beefing up, evolvement, fleshing out, germination, heightening, maturation, sprouting, stretching, thickening, unfolding, upping, waxing, widening |
| Antonyms: | abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good fortune |
| Synonyms: | advantage, blessing, break*, fluke*, godsend*, good luck, happiness, health, karma*, kismet*, lucky break*, occasion, opportunity, profit, prosperity, serendipity, smile*, stroke, success, triumph, victory, wealth, win, windfall, big break, fortunateness, in the cards, luckiness, run of luck, streak of luck, weal |
| Antonyms: | misfortune, bad fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
| Synonyms: | accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fighting chance*, fluke*, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucky break*, portion, providence, star, success, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, fifty-fifty*, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky hit, roll of the dice, run of luck, streak of luck, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | triumph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victory, achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, ascendancy, attainment, big win*, cinch, conquest, coup, feat, gain, hit, pushover*, riot, score, sell, sensation, splash, success, sure thing*, tour de force*, win, big hit, clean sweep, feather in cap, grand slam, hole in one, homer, shoo-in, smash-hit, sure bet, surmounting, takeover, the gold, vanquishing, vanquishment, walkover |
| Antonyms: | disaster, failure, forfeit, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knockout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a striking person or thing |
| Synonyms: | beauty, belle, eyeful*, gem, sensation, smash, success, vision, looker, stunner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | realization |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, attainment, consummation, fulfillment, success, triumph |
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