succeeding

Definitions

Coming next in time or order; following.

Achieving a desired aim or result; being successful.

Examples

She spent years working hard, eventually succeeding in her goal of becoming a surgeon.

The succeeding generation will face many of the same environmental challenges that we do today.

He was focused on succeeding where his predecessors had failed.

Synonyms

following subsequent ensuing consecutive next later posterior

Antonyms

preceding previous prior earlier antecedent former foregoing