Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

successively

/səksˈɛsɪvli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables: suc-ces-sive-ly
IPA: /səksˈɛsɪvli/

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a serial or successive manner; one following another.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"Founded about 1000 bc by Aeolian Greeks, the city [Assos] was successively ruled by Lydians, Persians, Pergamenes, Romans, and Byzantines, until Sultan Orhan Gazi (1288–1360) took it over for the Ottomans in 1330."

Etymology

Etymology tree English successive Middle English -ly English -ly English successively From successive + -ly.

Synonyms

in order together step by step one after another in turn

Rhymes With

aggressively progressively excessively impressively obsessively

Questions

How do you pronounce successively?: The recorded pronunciation is /səksˈɛsɪvli/.
What does successively mean?: In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
Where does successively come from?: Etymology tree English successive Middle English -ly English -ly English successively From successive + -ly.

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