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Successfully vs Successively - What's the difference?

successfully | successively |

As adverbs the difference between successfully and successively

is that successfully is in a successful manner; with success; without failing while successively is in a serial or successive manner; one following another.

successfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
    • He successfully climbed the mountain.
    They successfully completed their project together.

    Synonyms

    * efficaciously, efficiently, favorably, satisfyingly, satisfactorily, adequately, agreeably, competently, capably, proficiently, properly

    successively

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
    • December 20, 1787' ''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. — Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.