Meanings
- not comparableIn a serial or successive manner; one following another.
My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that.
December 20, 1787, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.2 more examples
Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.
1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416Founded about 1000 bc by Aeolian Greeks, the city [Assos] was successively ruled by Lydians, Persians, Pergamenes, Romans, and Byzantines, until Sultan Orhan Gazi (1288–1360) took it over for the Ottomans in 1330.
1993, “The Aegean Coast”, in Karen Cure, editor, Fodor’s Turkey […], New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 104Synonyms: in order, together, step by step, one after another
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a serial or successive manner; one following another.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin proper order or sequence
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Translations
Catalan successivament
- successivamentin a serial manner
Chinese Mandarin 陸續 /陆续, 先後 /先后
- 陸續 /陆续 (lùxù)in a serial manner
- 先後 /先后 (xiānhòu)in a serial manner
Dutch achtereenvolgens
- achtereenvolgensin a serial manner
Finnish peräkkäin
- peräkkäinin a serial manner
German nacheinander, hintereinander
- nacheinanderin a serial manner
- hintereinanderin a serial manner
Greek διαδοχικά
- διαδοχικά (diadochiká)in a serial manner
Japanese 連続して
- 連続して (renzoku shite)in a serial manner
Polish następnie, kolejno
- następniein a serial manner
- kolejnoin a serial manner
- sukcesywniein a serial manner
Portuguese sucessivamente
- sucessivamentein a serial manner
Russian подря́д, после́довательно
- подря́д (podrjád)in a serial manner
- после́довательно (poslédovatelʹno)in a serial manner
- поочерёдно (poočerjódno)in a serial manner
- оди́н за други́м (odín za drugím)in a serial manner
Scottish Gaelic sreath chèile, an sreath a chèile
- sreath chèilein a serial manner
- an sreath a chèilein a serial manner
Spanish sucesivamente
- sucesivamentein a serial manner
Swedish successivt
- successivtin a serial manner
Cite this entry
successively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/successively
“successively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/successively. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “successively,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/successively.
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