successive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: suc=ces=sive
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

successive, a. [Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

successive, adj. following one after another; running, consecutive.

Derivative

successively adv. successiveness n.

Etymology

ME f. med.L successivus (as SUCCEED)

THESAURUS

successive

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

ROGET THESAURUS

successive

Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.