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

Whoever they sign, they will hope their recruitment is more successful than virtually all the players they have tried in Carrick's favoured position since he joined from Tottenham for £18.6m in July 2006.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

They were more successful at identifying familiar objects, recognizing new ones, and detecting changes in their surroundings compared to untreated controls.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

But there is no collective term for all the different positions which have in common a recognition that some forms of knowledge of nature are more successful than others, and that consequently knowledge can progress.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton