'Successive' definitions:
Definition of 'successive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
In regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive]
Definition of 'Successive'
From: GCIDE
- Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'successive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Successive'
- Success,
- Successful,
- Successfully,
- Successfulness,
- Succession,
- Successively,
- Successiveness,
- in succession,
- Apostolical succession,
- Lake Success,
- Singular succession,
- Success, AR,
- Succession duty,
- Succession of crops,
- Successive induction,
- Vacant succession,
- chronological succession,
- ecological succession,
- line of succession,
- Lake Success, NY,
- war of the austrian succession,
- war of the spanish succession