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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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/

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• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /səkˈses.fə.li/
• Hyphenation: suc‧cess‧ful‧ly

Adverb

successfully (comparative more successfully, superlative most successfully)

1. In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

   He successfully climbed the mountain.

   They successfully completed their project together.

   • 1964 March, “Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:

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

   • 2025 April 7, Katie Hunt, “Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• efficaciously, efficiently, favorably, satisfyingly, satisfactorily, adequately, agreeably, competently, capably, proficiently, properly

Derived terms

• task failed successfully
• unsuccessfully

Translations

in a successful manner

• Arabic: بِنَجَاحٍ (binajāḥin)
• Czech: úspěšně (cs)
• Dutch: met succes
• Esperanto: sukcese
• Estonian: edukalt
• Finnish: onnistuneesti (fi), menestyksellisesti (fi)
• French: avec succès
• Georgian: წარმატებულად (c̣armaṭebulad)
• German: erfolgreich (de)
• Greek: επιτυχώς (el) (epitychós)
• Hungarian: sikeresen (hu)
• Italian: con successo
• Lithuanian: sėkmingai
• Portuguese: com sucesso
• Russian: успе́шно (ru) (uspéšno)
• Spanish: exitosamente