successively

English

Etymology

successive +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

successively (not comparable)

1. In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
   • December 20, 1787, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.:

     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.

   • 1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416:

     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.

Synonyms

• in order, step by step, one after another; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

Translations

in a serial manner

• Asturian: socesivamente
• Catalan: successivament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陸續／陆续 (zh) (lùxù), 先後／先后 (zh) (xiānhòu)

• Dutch: achtereenvolgens (nl)
• Finnish: peräkkäin (fi)
• French: successivement (fr)
• Galician: sucesivamente (gl)
• Georgian: ზედიზედ (zedized), მიყოლებით (miq̇olebit), თანმიმდევრულად (tanmimdevrulad), თანმიმდევრობით (tanmimdevrobit)
• German: sukzessive (de), nacheinander (de), hintereinander (de)
• Greek: διαδοχικά (el) (diadochiká)
• Ingrian: peräjalkiä
• Japanese: 連続して (ja) (れんぞくして, renzoku shite)
• Polish: kolejno (pl), sukcesywnie (pl)
• Portuguese: sucessivamente
• Russian: подря́д (ru) (podrjád), после́довательно (ru) (poslédovatelʹno), поочерёдно (ru) (poočerjódno), оди́н за други́м (ru) (odín za drugím)
• Scottish Gaelic: sreath chèile, an sreath a chèile
• Spanish: sucesivamente (es)
• Swedish: successivt (sv)