successive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Coming one after the other in a series.

   They had won the title for five successive years.

2. 2
   adj

   Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

   a successive title; a successive empire

3. 3
   adj

   in regular succession without gaps

4. 4
   adj

   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.

Etymology

From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).