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    Definition of successive in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveSUF-ive
    1. Coming one after the other in a series.
      1. They had won the title for five successive years.
    2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
      1. a successive title; a successive empire
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • They created the better chances while Boro, looking every inch a troubled team, rarely looked like avoiding a third successive goalless home draw.
    2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
      • Successive differentiation events lead to early gametocytes (stages I to III), susceptible to most of classical schizonticidal antimalarials.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
      • Uncomparable adjectives
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    1. fr successive
    2. fr successives
    3. en successively
    4. fr successivement
    5. en successiveness
    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of successive for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "successive" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective.
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