"successive" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /səkˈsɛsɪv/ Audio: En-us-successive.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛsɪv Etymology: From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|succedere||to succeed in}} Latin succedere (“to succeed in”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} successive (not comparable)
  1. Coming one after the other in a series. Tags: not-comparable Translations (in a series): مُتَتَابِع (mutatābiʕ) (Arabic), مُتَتَالٍ (mutatālin) (Arabic), مُتَوَالٍ (mutawālin) (Arabic), следващ (sledvašt) (Bulgarian), successiu (Catalan), peräkkäinen (Finnish), perättäinen (Finnish), successif (French), aufeinanderfolgende (German), aufeinander folgend (German), αλλεπάλληλος (allepállilos) (Greek), suksesif (Indonesian), alternus (Latin), whakaekeeke (Maori), suksessiv (Norwegian Bokmål), после́дующий (poslédujuščij) (Russian), сле́дующий (slédujuščij) (Russian), sucesivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-successive-en-adj-JV5yaBrg Disambiguation of 'in a series': 93 7 0
  2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-successive-en-adj-msTSBqpK
  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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Grammar
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: in a series [consecutive] Derived forms: successively, nonsuccessive Related terms: succeed, success, succession
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