consecutive
Meaning of consecutive
- following each other continuously.
five consecutive months of serious decline
- expressing consequence or result.
a consecutive clause
- denoting intervals of the same kind (especially fifths or octaves) occurring in succession between two parts or voices.
early 17th century: from French consécutif, -ive, from medieval Latin consecutivus, from Latin consecut- ‘followed closely’, from the verb consequi .
Information about consecutive
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which consecutive is used:
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Hyphenation of consecutive
con-sec-u-tive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- consecutive is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
consecutive synonyms
Meaning sequent:
sequent, sequential, serial, successive
Meaning straight:
Meaning sequentially:
Meaning coming after something in time; subsequent:
Meaning next in time:
Meaning (of water) flowing naturally or supplied to a building through pipes and taps:
Meaning forming an unbroken whole; without interruption:
Meaning (of time) uninterrupted; continuous:
Meaning without a break in continuity:
Meaning not broken, fractured, or damaged:
consecutive antonyms
Meaning forming or viewed as a unit apart or by itself:
Translation of consecutive
- Spanish: sucesivo, consecutivo
- Italian: successivo, consecutivo
- French: consécutif
Words that rhyme with consecutive
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative