successfully
//səkˈsɛs.fə.li//
Forms
- Comparative
- more successfully
- Superlative
- most successfully
Definitions
1.In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
- They successfully completed their project together.
- He successfully climbed the mountain.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3355
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.