successful

adj.

VERBS

▪ be, prove

▪ appear, seem

▪ become

▪ feel

▪

Winning is the only way they can feel successful.

▪ be considered, be deemed, be judged

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ enormously, extraordinarily, fabulously (esp. AmE), highly, hugely, immensely, outstandingly (esp. BrE), phenomenally, spectacularly, tremendously, truly, unusually, wildly

▪

his phenomenally successful period as manager

▪ amazingly, astonishingly, incredibly, remarkably, surprisingly

▪ largely

▪ not completely, not entirely, not wholly

▪

Their attempts had not been entirely successful.

▪ marginally (esp. AmE), moderately, modestly, partially, partly, reasonably, relatively

▪

The operation was only partially successful.

▪ consistently

▪ increasingly

▪ initially

▪ eventually, ultimately

▪

The alliance was ultimately successful in getting its message across.

▪ academically, commercially, economically, financially, politically

▪

a politically successful move

PREPOSITION

▪ at

▪

He has been remarkably successful at keeping his private life private.

▪ in

▪

We hope the party will be successful in the elections.

Successful is used with these nouns: ↑actor, actress, ↑adaptation, ↑adjustment, ↑applicant, ↑application, ↑artist, ↑assault, ↑attempt, ↑barrister, ↑battle, ↑bid, ↑business, ↑businessman, businesswoman, ↑campaign, ↑candidate, ↑career, ↑coach, ↑collaboration, ↑comeback, ↑company, ↑competitor, ↑completion, ↑composer, ↑conclusion, ↑conference, ↑conviction, ↑counter-attack, ↑coup, ↑delegation, ↑demonstration, ↑deployment, ↑effort, ↑endeavour, ↑enterprise, ↑entrepreneur, ↑escape, ↑establishment, ↑evening, ↑execution, ↑executive, ↑exercise, ↑expansion, ↑expedition, ↑experiment, ↑exploitation, ↑farmer, ↑film, ↑firm, ↑formula, ↑franchise, ↑future, ↑implementation, ↑initiative, ↑innovation, ↑integration, ↑intervention, ↑investment, ↑landing, ↑launch, ↑lawyer, ↑learning, ↑manager, ↑marriage, ↑meeting, ↑merchant, ↑merger, ↑mission, ↑movie, ↑musical, ↑negotiation, ↑opening, ↑operation, ↑outcome, ↑painter, ↑partnership, ↑photographer, ↑politician, ↑practice, ↑prediction, ↑pregnancy, ↑production, ↑project, ↑prosecution, ↑recovery, ↑recruitment, ↑removal, ↑reproduction, ↑rescue, ↑resolution, ↑return, ↑revolution, ↑run, ↑salesman, ↑scheme, ↑season, ↑show, ↑strategy, ↑surgery, ↑team, ↑tender, ↑test, ↑tour, ↑transfer, ↑transition, ↑treatment, ↑trip, ↑venture, ↑woman, ↑writer