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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | boastful, celebratory, champion, conquering, dominant, elated, exultant, glorious, happy, in the lead, jubilant, looking good, lucky, on top, out front, prizewinning, proud, rejoicing, swaggering, triumphal, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, winning |
| Antonyms: | defeated, failing, losing, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, born with a silver spoon, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, gaining, get a break, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, in luck, in the gravy, lucky, on a roll, opportune, overcoming, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, sunny side, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do |
| Notes: | fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
| Main Entry: | gleeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy |
| Synonyms: | blithe, blithesome, boon, cheerful, delighted, elated, exalted, exuberant, exultant, frolicsome, gay, gratified, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, pleased, triumphant |
| Antonyms: | discouraged, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, worried |
Example Sentences
- The troupe distilled and energized the milieu of anomie, satirizing the lame old regime in a triumphant revolt.
- If they had got through, it would have been a triumphant breaching of the blockade.
- It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
| Main Entry: | glorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adored, idiolized; divine |
| Synonyms: | august, beautiful, bright, brilliant, celebrated, dazzling, delightful, distinguished, effulgent, elevated, eminent, enjoyable, esteemed, exalted, excellent, famed, famous, fine, gorgeous, grand, gratifying, great, heavenly, heroic, honored, illustrious, immortal, magnificent, majestic, marvelous, memorable, noble, notable, noted, pleasurable, preeminent, radiant, remarkable, renowned, resplendent, shining, splendid, sublime, superb, time-honored, triumphant, venerable, well-known, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | atrocious, awful, bad, contemptible, disgraceful, shameful |
| Main Entry: | jubilant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | celebrating, doing handsprings, elated, enraptured, euphoric, excited, exuberant, exultant, exulting, flipping, flying*, glad, gleeful, joyous, overjoyed, pleased, rejoicing, rhapsodic, thrilled, tickled, triumphal, triumphant |
| Antonyms: | depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | successful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable, profitable |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, advantageous, ahead of the game, at the top, at top of ladder, auspicious, bestselling, blooming, blossoming, booming, champion, crowned, efficacious, extraordinary, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, fruitful, happy, lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, notable, noteworthy, on track, out in front, outstanding, paying, prosperous, rewarding, rolling, strong, thriving, top, triumphant, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | forfeiting, losing, unfavorable, unprofitable, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | victorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful, winning |
| Synonyms: | arrived, champion, conquering, on top, prizewinning, triumphant, vanquishing |
| Antonyms: | failing, losing, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | conquering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | victorious |
| Synonyms: | dominating, successful, triumphant, winning |
| Main Entry: | unbeaten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undefeated |
| Synonyms: | successful, triumphant, unconquered, unsurpassed, victorious, winning |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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