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successfully

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • Canada//səkˈsɛs.fə.li//
  • Australia//səkˈses.fə.li//

In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

    He successfully climbed the mountain.

    They successfully completed their project together.

    Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - […]

    A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

Etymology

Etymology tree English successful Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English successfully From successful + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more successfully
superlative
most successfully
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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