successive

From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).

• IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
• Hyphenation: suc‧ces‧sive

successive (not comparable)

1. Coming one after the other in a series.

   They had won the title for five successive years.

   • 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.

2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

   a successive title; a successive empire

3. (grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.

• (in a series): consecutive

• successively
• nonsuccessive

• succeed
• success
• succession

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successive

1. feminine singular of successif

• IPA^(key): /sut.t͡ʃesˈsi.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: suc‧ces‧sì‧ve

successive

1. feminine plural of successivo

successīve

1. vocative masculine singular of successīvus

• successive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

successive

1. definite natural masculine singular of successiv