Decisive
Decisive adjective - Fully committed to achieving a goal.
Successful and decisive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Successful" instead an adjective "Decisive".
Successful
Successful adjective - Having attained a desired end or state of good fortune.
Decisive and successful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decisive" instead an adjective "Successful".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- He's been quite successful in his war, he just secured an alliance that would allow him a possible decisive victory, he's married and his wife is expecting.
Source: Too Happy to Live - Imagine Spot: Following the final, successful defense in the last dream, BF begins dreaming that his actions ended up being so decisive to the conduct of the whole war that he receives a knighthood—just before he's woken up for good.
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The sisters Harulu and Karala from Space Runaway Ideon are an archetypal example: the older, more socially awkward but decisive Harulu grows jealous of the dreamy, honest but romantically successful Karala and shoots her to death (during the Kill 'em All), only realizing her true reasons afterwards.
Source: Cain and Abel
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