more successful

ADJECTIVE

favorable, profitable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fortunate fruitful happy lucky lucrative outstanding prosperous rewarding strong wealthy

WEAK

acknowledged advantageous ahead of the game at the top at top of ladder auspicious bestselling blooming blossoming booming champion crowned efficacious extraordinary flourishing fortuitous moneymaking notable noteworthy on track out in front paying rolling thriving top triumphant unbeaten undefeated victorious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad hopeless poor sad unfortunate unhappy unlucky unsuccessful

WEAK

forfeiting losing unfavorable unprofitable

Example Sentences

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Some of these portrayals are more successful than others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2026

Not only were the images ageist and stereotypical, but they also got a key fact about entrepreneurship wrong: Older business creators are more successful than younger ones, research shows.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

As a result, "my hunch is that we will see more successful employee ownership conversions in the next few years."

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

They were more successful at identifying familiar objects, recognizing new ones, and detecting changes in their surroundings compared to untreated controls.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

His own father was a pastor, a much more successful one, but Dorus was not striving to be like his father; he was not ambitious for himself.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman