successively

American  

[suhk-ses-iv-lee] / səkˈsɛs ɪv li /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsuccessively adverb
• unsuccessively adverb

Etymology

Origin of successively

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

Example Sentences

Most cases went 5 to 4 with majorities shifting successively on each side.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

Each of the fall’s three rate cuts faced successively greater internal resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

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

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

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

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

This enabled the two Voyagers to use a "gravity assist" technique in which the craft were successively flung from one gassy giant to the next in a kind of cosmic version of "crack the whip."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Related Words

• again and again
• generally
• intermittently
• many times
• often
• periodically
• regularly
• time and again
• usually