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Definitions for successfully
suc·cess·ful·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. successfullyadverb

    with success; in a successful manner

    "she performed the surgery successfully"

Wiktionary

  1. successfullyadverb

    In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Successfullyadverb

    Prosperously; luckily; fortunately.

    Etymology: from successful.

    He is too young, yet he looks successfully. William Shakespeare.

    They would want a competent instrument to collect and convey their rays successfully, or so as to imprint the species with any vigour on a dull prejudicate faculty. Henry Hammond.

    The rule of imitating God can never be successfully proposed but upon Christian principles; such as that this world is a place not of rest, but of discipline. Francis Atterbury.

    A reformation successfully carried on in this great town, would in time spread itself over the whole kingdom. Jonathan Swift.

    Bleeding, when the expectoration goes on successfully, suppresseth it. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

ChatGPT

  1. successfully

    Successfully is defined as accomplishing an aim, purpose or desired result in an effective or superior manner. It often implies the completion of a task or goal with favorable outcomes.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'successfully' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2955

  2. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'successfully' in Adverbs Frequency: #228

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of successfully in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of successfully in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of successfully in a Sentence

  1. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis:

    Life is too short to learn everything by experience,” Mattis told reporters after the event. “In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully.”

  2. Ihsan Al-Shammari:

    Iraq is saying that there is great political stability, it also speaks to the security situation, especially if the tournament is successfully completed without any security incidents.

  3. Aaron Smith:

    We agree with Senator Schumer that this legislation is long overdue and commend his leadership as the Senate’s top Democrat to finally modernize our nation’s marijuana policies, removing cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act will allow states to continue to successfully regulate cannabis, undermine criminal markets, create new economic opportunities, and will pave the way to much-needed research into the therapeutic potential of cannabis.

  4. Peter Cardillo:

    We managed to successfully close above it( on Monday) and that's bringing in some buying this morning, just from a very oversold condition.

  5. Deise Galan:

    Why are we going to reinvent the wheel, if there are other places that have been able to successfully implement this program ? at the local level, we can have that peer-to peer-sharing and collection of best practice.

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