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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. one after the other;
- Example: "back-to-back home runs"
[syn: back-to-back, consecutive]

2. in regular succession without gaps;
- Example: "serial concerts"
[syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive]

3. successive (without a break);
- Example: "sick for five straight days"
[syn: straight, consecutive]


ADVERB (1)

1. in a consecutive manner;
- Example: "we numbered the papers consecutively"
[syn: consecutive, sequentially]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See Consequent.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. [1913 Webster] The actions of a man consecutive to volition. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mus.) 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. [1913 Webster] Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

consecutive adv 1: in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively" [syn: consecutive, sequentially] adj 1: one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn: back-to-back, consecutive] 2: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive] 3: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: straight, consecutive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "consecutive": after, attendant, cadet, catenary, connected, consistent, continuous, enlarging, ensuing, following, increasing, joined, junior, later, lineal, linear, orderly, ordinal, posterior, progressive, puisne, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, subsequent, succeeding, successional, successive, tight, trailing, uninterrupted, younger