successively

[suhk-ses-iv-lee]

adverb

1. in uninterrupted sequence; one after another; consecutively.

   First appointed to the Board of Directors 12 years ago, he has served successively as director, secretary, treasurer, and now, president-elect.

Other Word Forms

• nonsuccessively adverb
• unsuccessively adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of successively¹

First recorded in 1400–50; successive ( def. ) + -ly ( def. )

Example Sentences

That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.

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Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.

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The head-to-head elimination matches have competitors shooting three arrows in each of five “ends,” with the bull’s-eye equaling 10 points, the outer rings successively less.

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A team at the University of California San Diego exposed batches of spores from a strain of Bacillus subtilis bacterium to rounds of successively higher temperatures.

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Instead of being strategically managed to address the realities of the future, WSU has successively cut budgets across the board:

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