Definitions for successive

successive suc·ces·sive

Spelling: [suh k-ses-iv]
IPA: /səkˈsɛs ɪv/

Successive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in successive (cceeisssuv).

Definitions for successive

adjective

  1. following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive:
  2. following another in a regular sequence:
  3. characterized by or involving succession.

Origin of successive

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin successīvus, equivalent to success(us), past participle of succēdere to succeed + -īvus Examples for successive

Perhaps hotels will offer package deals through which visitors can visit all the talk-shows on three successive nights.

In 1840, he was chosen president, and held the office for eight successive years.

After the three others were killed in successive Israeli operations in the mid-1990s, Zeif took command.

The story of Bluebeard is probably based on the successive crimes of a sadic.

And it comes on the heels of two successive years of reduced deficits.

That is a mystery; but it may be supposed to take place by successive stages.

He was five successive years the representative of Thomaston.

No rigid line can be drawn between the successive stages of growth.

The West has seen what Putin has done with Russia during his successive terms in office.

Laypeople tend to regard two successive quarters of negative growth as a recession.

Word Value for successive
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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