- following immediately one after the other synonym consecutive
- This was their fourth successive win.
- Successive governments have tried to tackle the problem.
- There has been low rainfall for two successive years.
Extra Examples- She grew less confident with every successive defeat.
- The country experienced successive waves of invasion.
- The road remained closed for the third successive day.
- The text has been used by successive generations of medical students.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySuccessive is used with these nouns:- defeat
- draw
- generation
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin successivus, from success- ‘followed closely’, from the verb succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’.Definitions on the go
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