succeeding

Speech parts

1. succeeding - Noun

2. succeeding - Adjective

3. succeeding - Verb

5. succeeding - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Succeed

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

next future after second following later work come successful follow subsequent winning coming reaching replace

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Antonyms

preceding said beginning former according previous

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Phrases with the word

succeeding generations fair chance of succeeding same chance of succeeding no chance of succeeding succeeding party succeeding inspection

Examples

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. Francis Bacon

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. Henri Poincaré

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. American Proverb

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. Italian Proverb

If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. Nigerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

succeedable succeedant succeeder succeeding generations succeeding in succeeding inspection