Collocations for IELTS Word Success
IELTS covers an important topic, the collocation list. Collocations are two or three connected words that are combined together and then they sound meaningful together. For example, we can describe a meeting as ‘hectic meet’ but not ‘tough meet’ as it would be wrong to use tough as an adjective. Collocations for IELTS are divided into many categories based on the parts of speech like - adverb + adjective, adjective + noun, noun + noun, and more. The article below includes the list of important collocations for IELTS writing of the word ‘Success’ below.
The word Success can be used as a noun, verb, phrase, or an adjective, which usually refers to two major things, good results, and something or someone who achieves their aim.
The word problem has two meanings: good results and someone or something who achieves their respective aims . The following provides the usage of the word in relation to different parts of speech.
Success as 'Good results':
The following section includes all the collocation for the word success for the same meaning.
- Success with Adjective:
Adjective: Big, huge enormous, great, fantastic, major, massive, phenomenal, overwhelming, remarkable, spectacular, tremendous
Meaning: Having better results than expected, greater than expected
Example: The fest organised by the students this year was a massive success, it was appreciated by everyone in the association.
Adjective: Amazing, extra-ordinary, superb, astonishing, remarkable, unpredicted, etc
Meaning: Something which was unexpected and was surprising
Example: The party organised by the company this year was a remarkable success.
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Adjective: Modest and partial
Meaning: Something vey ordinary, and not out of the blue
Example: The initiative by the NGO to create awareness amongst thevillages has been a modest success
Adjective: Immediate, Instant, Sudden, Overnight, Runaway
Meaning: Something achieved very suddenly and fast
Example: The get-together organised by the college authorities has been an immediate success.
Adjective:Notable
Meaning: Something not extraordinary but is worth mentioning.
Example: Her regular excercise regimen has been a notable success.
Adjective: Complete, total, full
Meaning: Performed till the last step completely
Example: He has been working hard on this project for the past 3 months, and it has been a complete success.
Adjective: Proven, Proved, etc
Meaning: To be proved true with facts.
Example: Digitalisation has been a proven success in the field of communication.
- Success with verbs:
Verb: Achieve, enjoy, have, had, has, etc,.
Meaning: To possess, have it
Example: She has been very successful in her career lately, and is planning to achieve such success in the future too.
Verb: Bring
Meaning: To get it by some modifications, call for it, bring it
Example: The trsining of the staff has brought success to the company.
Verb: End in, Result in
Meaning: To conclude into, finish into
Example: A month long hurger strike has finally ended into success on the part of the student body
Verb: Ensure, Guarantee
Meaning: Confirmed
Example: Success cannot be ensured on the basis of only luck and no hardwork.
Verb: to be Vital to
Meaning: essential
Example: Hardwork is vital to ensure the success of any individual.
Verb: Come
Meaning: To commence, bring, etc.
Example: Success does not come easy to anyone.
Verb: Lie
Meaning: Stay, lives
Example: Success lies in the hands of the individual.
Verb: Depends on
Meaning: is reliant upon, has mutual relation, is proportional
Example: The success of any project depends upon hardwork and persistence.
- Success with noun:
Noun: Rate, Rate and speed of success
Example: We can observe a 100% success rate in this organisation.
Noun: Story, Stories regarding success
Example: Her grandmother has several success stories in her bag for his daughter.
- Success with prepositions:
Preposition and meaning: Without (leaving it, besides, not accepting
Example: He decided to pursue the same work without success.
Preposition and meaning: In (inside)
Example: He was successful in winning the race and getting the first prize nationwide.
Preposition and meaning: With (along with, accompanied by, together)
Example: Her hardwork and persistent efforts were accompanied with success.
- Success as a phrase:
Phrase: A chance of success or hope of Success
Meaning: To have a possibility of succeeding
Example: Do we have any chance of success in this investment?
Phrase: confident of success
Meaning: Being sure about being successful
Example: He had worked so hard, that he was confident of success.
Phrase: Lack of success, key to success, secret of success, etc,.
Example: Hardwork is the key to success, Her carelessness resulted in her lack of success, Persistence is the key secret of her success etc.
- As a quantitative estimate
Collocation: Amount, degree
Meaning: A quantitative estimate
Example: One can never measure the amount od success they might recieve.
Success as 'Something that achieves its aim'
The following section includes all the collocation for the word success for the same meaning.
- Success with adjectives:
Adjective: Big, huge enormous, great, fantastic, major, massive, phenomenal, overwhelming, remarkable, spectacular, tremendous
Meaning: Having better results than expected, greater than expected
Example: The meeting was a huge success this time.
Adjective: International
Meaning: At a global level
Example: The merger of the companies proved to be an international success.
Adjective: Business, commercial, economic, profitable
Meaning: Being successful and profitable in terms of money
Example: The music album proved to be a commercial success.
- Success with Verb:
Verb: To prove, proven, proved
Meaning: To show the stsement is true with facts
Example: Her long hours of work has proved to be a success.
Verb: Make, Made, to make, Built
Meaning: To build
Example: She worked hard everday to make herself successful.
Verb: Judge, commented on, evaluated
Meaning: To be observed by someone else and then bein evaluated and criticised by them
Example: The judges, participants, and the audience evaluate and judge the success of any competition.
- Success as phrase:
Phrase: wish her/him/them/it success
Meaning: To hope and pray for the success of other people in the future.
Example: Parth and Vrinda moved abroad for their future studies, we wished them success with a heavy heart.
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