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successful
adjective as in favorable, profitable
Example Sentences
Do you think the Pentagon delegation will be successful in advancing stalled peace talks?
“It would be poor timing if so,” she thought morosely, “for I can hardly make a speech about my successful career as a governess if I have just been fired in disgrace.”
They have undergone or are currently involved in successful reintroductions to the wild: Karner blue butterfly, red wolf, black-footed ferret, whooping crane, golden-lion tamarin.
Though it had been difficult, and despite long odds and months spent apart, Mamá and Daddy’s vision for our family was successful.
So successful, in fact, that after six months of grueling and dangerous work, the decks of two vessels were so filled with drying sponges that there was little room left to move about.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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