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successively

successively adverb: in a serial or successive manner; one following another.

Adverb

successively (not comparable)

  1. In 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.
    • 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 416

successively meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu

successively in Hindi

क्रमिक रूप से

successively in Tamil

தொடாச்சியாக

successively in Urdu

دم بہ دم, لگاتار, پیہم

Synonyms of successively

Origin of successively

From successive + -ly.

Questions about successively

What does successively mean?
Successively means in a serial or successive manner; one following another.
What is successively in Hindi?
Successively in Hindi is क्रमिक रूप से. See Successively meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is successively?
Successively is an adverb.

Words near successively in the dictionary

  1. successionless
  2. successionlessness
  3. successions
  4. successism
  5. successive
  6. successively
  7. successiveness
  8. successivities
  9. successivity
  10. successless
  11. successlessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: successively (page history and authors); successively (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); successively (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); successively (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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