successive
successive
Definition
suc·ces·sive (sək ses′iv)
adjective
- coming in succession; following one after another in sequence; consecutive
- of or involving succession
Etymology: ME < LL successivus
suc·ces′·sively adverb
suc·ces′·sive·ness noun
successive
Synonyms
successive
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- then: Since then successive generations of school children have come to rely on this method of identification.
- yet: Yet successive Conservative and Labor governments have stripped power from local communities.
Modifies a noun
- defeat: For the first time in nearly a century, the Tories suffered their third successive defeat.
- generation: With each successive generation more people are becoming more severely depressed at a younger age.
- victory: Home skipper Darren Stride grabbed his first goal of the season to clinch a club record fifth successive Conference victory for Burton.
- approximation: Calculations in QED are carried out via " Feynman diagrams " which are successive approximations to QED.
- government: Successive governments then started arguing about who could manage them better.
- iteration: The SCF criterion is the change in energy in kcal/mol on two successive iterations.
Used with adjective complement
Browse dictionary entries near successive
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- succinate
- succinct
- succinic acid
- succinylcholine chloride
- succor
- succory
- succotash
- Succoth
- succubus
