successfully

In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

Adverb

  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 - […] - 1964 March, “Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:

Origin

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

more successfully most successfully

Synonyms

efficaciously efficiently favorably satisfyingly satisfactorily adequately agreeably competently capably proficiently properly

Derived

task failed successfully unsuccessfully