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Successful vs Affluent - What's the difference?

successful | affluent |

As adjectives the difference between successful and affluent

is that successful is resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy while affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous.

As a noun affluent is

somebody who is wealthy.

successful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful , Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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    Synonyms

    * efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitable

    Antonyms

    * unsuccessful * failed

    Derived terms

    * successfully * successfulness

    Related terms

    * success

    affluent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
  • * 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
    • The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
  • A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abundant; copious; plenteous.
  • * H. Reed
    • languageaffluent in expression
  • (label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent , with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • (label) Tributary.
  • (label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  • * Harvey
    • affluent blood

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * affluence * affluently

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