a. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]
Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[きめる, kimeru](v1, vt) (1) to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix; (2) to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); (3) to persist in doing; to go through with; (4) (as 決めている) to always do; to have made a habit of; (5) to take for granted; to assume; (6) to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines; (7) to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing; (8) { MA } to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.); (P)#4966[Add to Longdo]
[おたうえまつり, otauematsuri](n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; (2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine[Add to Longdo]
[はなをさかせる, hanawosakaseru](exp, v1) (1) (See 話に花を咲かせる) to make lively; to become animated; to have fun talking about something; (2) to become successful and well known[Add to Longdo]