suc ‧ ces ‧ sive AC /səkˈsesɪv/ BrE AmE adjective [only before noun]
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ success , ↑ succession , ↑ successor ; adjective : ↑ successful ≠ ↑ unsuccessful , ↑ successive ; verb : ↑ succeed ; adverb : ↑ successfully ≠ ↑ unsuccessfully ]
coming or following one after the other:
The team has had five successive victories.
Successive governments have tried to deal with this issue.
—successively adverb