successive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite in regular succession without gaps
    consecutive; serial; sequential; sequent.
    • serial concerts

WordNet

Suc*ces"sive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.
Definitions
  1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
    Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.
  2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913