Adjective

(en adjective)

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy

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Adjective

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Coming one after the other in a series.

They had won the title for five successive years.

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Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

a successive''' title; a '''successive empire