Antonyms for successes

Grammar : Noun

Spell : suhk-ses

Phonetic Transcription : səkˈsɛs

Definition of successes

Origin : 1530s, "result, outcome," from Latin successus "an advance, succession, happy outcome," from succedere "come after" (see succeed). Meaning "accomplishment of desired end" (good success) first recorded 1580s.
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]
Success story is attested from 1925. Among the French phrases used in English late 19c. were succès d'estime "cordial reception given to a literary work out of respect rather than admiration" and succès de scandale "success (especially of a work of art) dependent upon its scandalous character."

noun favorable outcome

Example sentences :

As already seen, we ask for difficulties to conquer, successes to achieve.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Her successes have varied inversely as the length of her trunk-hose.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 » by Various

Of all his successes, this royal recognition was surely the one which pleased him most.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

With the first successes of the court the work of punishment began.
Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey

I now thought I might boast of my successes to Turkey, but he was not pleased.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

That one shall be heir to all the successes of each of us and shall disclaim all the failures of each.
Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

But the successes of the Romans brought them other things which were good.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Their failures are no less conspicuous than their successes.
Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby

But, duped by his successes, he had allowed pride to persuade him that he was really a writer.
Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola

Indeed, at the time of its first successes, it was the saving grace of England.
Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke

Synonyms for successes

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