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successful

adj
/səkˈsɛs.fəl/CA/səkˈses.fəl/

Etymology

From success + -ful.

  1. learned borrowing from successus
  2. suffixed as successful — “success + ful”

Definitions

  1. Resulting in success

    Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

    • a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
    • If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at successful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at successful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at successful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA