successive
Syllables: suc·ces·siveUK/səkˈsɛsɪv/
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Australia/səkˈsesɪv/
successive adjective: coming one after the other in a series.
Adjective
successive (not comparable)
- Coming one after the other in a series.
- They had won the title for five successive years.
- A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162
- Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
- a successive title
- a successive empire
- 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.
successive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
successive in Hindi
- in a series
- क्रमिक kramik
successive in Tamil
- அடுத்தடுத்து, தொடர்ந்து வரிசை முறையான, தொடர்ந்து வருகிற, பின்தொடர்ந்து வருகிற, வரிசைமுறையான, அடுத்தடுத்த
successive in Urdu
- لگاتر, مسلسل, متواتر, تابڑتوڑ
successive in Bengali
- পর্যায়ক্রমিক, ক্রমাগত
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- successive in Malayalam
- പടിപടിയായ, ക്രമാനുഗതമായ, തുടർച്ചയായ, ഒന്നിനുപുറകേ ഒന്നായി വരുന്ന
- successive in Kannada
- ಹಿಂಬರುವ, ಹಿಂದೆ ಹಿಂದೆ ಬರುವ
- successive in Arabic
- مُتَتَابِع mutatābiʕ, مُتَتَالٍ mutatālin, مُتَوَالٍ mutawālin, مُتَعَاقِب mutaʕāqib
- successive in Indonesian
- suksesif
Examples of successive in a sentence
- He showed loyalty to his local football club after successive relegations.
- The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart.
- After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.
Synonyms of successive
- in a series
Origin of successive
From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).
Words formed from successive
Words that rhyme with successive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about successive
- What does successive mean?
- Successive means coming one after the other in a series.
- What is successive in Hindi?
- Successive in Hindi is क्रमिक (kramik). See Successive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is successive?
- Successive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce successive?
- Successive is pronounced /səkˈsɛsɪv/ (UK).
Words near successive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: successive (page history and authors); successive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); successive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); successive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); successive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); successive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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