Standard Lemma guide

successive

adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /səkˈsɛsɪv/
  • California, Southern: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /səkˈsesɪv/
  • New-Zealand: /səkˈsesəv/
  • rhymes with -ɛsɪv
  • CMU ARPABET: S AH0 K S EH1 S IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Coming one after the other in a series.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • They had won the title for five successive years.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a successive title
  • a successive empire

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

in regular succession without gaps

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • serial concerts

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُتَتَابِع (mutatābiʕ) — in a series
  • Arabic: مُتَتَالٍ (mutatālin) — in a series
  • Arabic: مُتَوَالٍ (mutawālin) — in a series
  • Bulgarian: следващ (sledvašt) — in a series
  • Catalan: successiu — in a series
  • Finnish: peräkkäinen — in a series
  • Finnish: perättäinen — in a series
  • French: successif — in a series
  • German: aufeinanderfolgende — in a series
  • German: aufeinander folgend — in a series
  • Greek: αλλεπάλληλος (allepállilos) — in a series
  • Hindi: क्रमिक (kramik) — in a series
  • Indonesian: suksesif — in a series
  • Latin: alternus — in a series
  • Māori: whakaekeeke — in a series
  • Norwegian Bokmål: suksessiv — in a series
  • Polish: następny — in a series
  • Polish: kolejny — in a series
  • Polish: sukcesywny — in a series
  • Russian: после́дующий (poslédujuščij) — in a series
  • Russian: сле́дующий (slédujuščij) — in a series
  • Spanish: sucesivo — in a series
Real reading context

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