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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Monetary policy under Powell was more successful when it was driven by more conventional frameworks that stressed a more limited view of what monetary policy can accomplish, Romer said.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

That is the irony of China’s robot push: that, the more successful it becomes, the more likely foreign governments are to restrict it.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

By the time Powers’s U-2 was shot down, Johnson was already on to his next project, the even more successful SR-71 Blackbird—another high-altitude reconnaissance plane—that flew higher, faster and farther than the U-2.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

He has been more successful than Celtic could have hoped for when they brought him out of retirement after Brendan Rodgers' acrimonious departure, and again following Wilfried Nancy's ill-fated eight-game spell.

From BBC • May 6, 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