winning

1. 1.

   succeeding with great difficulty

   “winning is not everything”

   Broadersuccess

Other forms of winning

plural

winnings·

comparative

winninger·

superlative

winningest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about winning

What does winning mean?

winning means "having won". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in winning?

winning has 2 syllables: win-ning. The stress falls on "win". In IPA it is /ˈwɪnɪŋ/.

What is another word for winning?

Close synonyms include victorious, fetching, taking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is winning a common word?

winning is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.