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success
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Sense: Noun: fact of succeeding
Synonyms:
completion Collocations, consummation, culmination, fruition, breakthrough Collocations, progress Collocations, realization Collocations, realisation (UK), conclusion Collocations, accomplishment Collocations, ascendancy, achieving, gaining, prospering, attaining, accomplishing, advancing, triumphing, finishing, doing Collocations, resolution Collocations, benefiting, profiting
Antonyms:
failing Collocations, foundering, falling short, losing, defeat Collocations, having bad luck, going bankrupt, running out of luck
Sense: Noun: fortune or prosperity
Synonyms:
fortune Collocations, good luck, prosperity, achievement Collocations, gain Collocations, benefit Collocations, victory, win Collocations, triumph, wealth Collocations, advance Collocations, attainment Collocations, accomplishment Collocations, profit Collocations, upward mobility, the life of Riley (informal), bed of roses (informal), favorable outcome, favourable outcome (UK)
Antonyms:
disappointment Collocations, blow Collocations, setback Collocations, bad luck, defeat Collocations, loss Collocations, bankruptcy Collocations, misfortune, trouble Collocations, adversity, hard knocks, barren spell
Sense: Noun: successful person or thing
Synonyms:
hit Collocations (informal), smash Collocations (informal), smash hit (informal), triumph, overnight success, celebrity Collocations, celeb (informal), famous person, somebody Collocations (informal), sensation, leader Collocations, authority Collocations, master Collocations, expert Collocations, belter (informal), star Collocations, man of fortune, world beater, world-beater, best seller, best-seller, bestseller, firm favorite, firm favourite (UK), golden child, big cheese (informal), VIP
Antonyms:
flop Collocations, failure Collocations, disaster Collocations, nonentity, nobody Collocations, upstart, whippersnapper


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