chronological
kron-uh-LOJ-ih-kuladjMeaning arranged in the order in which things happened
Memory hook CHRONO-LOGICAL: TIME in LOGICAL order. Ivy hangs her photos in order of time: baby, toddler, first grade, now. The row is chronological.
Ivy lined up her baby pictures in chronological order, from her first day to her fifth birthday.
In context The museum’s halls are chronological: you begin with ancient stone tools in the first room and finish with rockets and robots in the last.
Similar sequential, in time order, ordered
Opposite random, jumbled, out of order
From chronology, from Greek chronos (time) + logos (word, account).