| Successive 1. (a.) 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. 2. (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. Thesaurus Entries after, alternating, appendant, attendant, cadet, catenary, consecutive, consequent, continual, continuous, ensuing, following, junior, later, lineal, linear, next, ordinal, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, progressive, proximate, puisne, rotating, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, subsequent, succeeding, successional, suffixed, unbroken, uninterrupted, younger |