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Achieving vs Succeeding - What's the difference?

achieving | succeeding |

As verbs the difference between achieving and succeeding

is that achieving is while succeeding is .

As nouns the difference between achieving and succeeding

is that achieving is achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them while succeeding is success.

As an adjective succeeding is

following, next in order.

achieving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them.

    • succeeding

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Following, next in order.
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

    • Antonyms

    * preceding

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • success
  • * 1722 , Nicholas Ling, ?John Bodenham, Wits Common-wealth (page 105)
    • It is good for a man in the midst of prosperity to fear a Ruin, and in the midst of adversity to hope for better succeedings .