consecutive

consecutive is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
2. adjective. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
3. adjective. Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.
4. adjective. one after the other

   "back-to-back home runs"

5. adjective. successive (without a break)

   "sick for five straight days"

   Synonyms: straight

6. adjective. in regular succession without gaps

   "serial concerts"

   Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive

7. adverb. in a consecutive manner

   "we numbered the papers consecutively"

   Synonyms: sequentially

Synonyms

straight, sequent, sequential, serial, successive, sequentially

Common word forms

consecutives, consecutively, consecutiveness

Words from these letters

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