consecutive
In unbroken order
Consecutive describes things that follow one after another without interruption: three consecutive wins, consecutive days of rain.
The word emphasizes unbroken sequence—if you miss a day, the count resets.
She served four consecutive terms in office.
Following without interruption
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- ensuingFollowing as consequence
- succeedingAttaining aims or following
- followingComing after another
next · after · later · coming · forthcoming · proceeding · continuous · uninterrupted
Directly next to
- contiguousSharing a common boundary
- adjoiningSharing a border
- abuttingSharing a common border
- borderingSharing an edge with
neighboring · next · beside · alongside · aligned · collinear · linear · end-to-end
Following in order
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- progressionSequential forward movement
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- chainLinked segments forming length
string · train · lineup · chronology · queue · stream · ordinal · numerical
successive
Following without interruption
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- ensuingFollowing as consequence
- succeedingAttaining aims or following
following · next · after · later · coming · forthcoming · proceeding · continuous · uninterrupted · back-to-back
adjacent
Directly next to
- contiguousSharing a common boundary
- adjoiningSharing a border
- abuttingSharing a common border
bordering · neighboring · next · beside · alongside · aligned · collinear · linear · end-to-end · back-to-back
succession
Following in order
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- progressionSequential forward movement
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
chain · string · train · lineup · chronology · queue · stream · ordinal · numerical · arrangement
continuous
Without pause or gap
- uninterruptedContinuing without a stop
- unceasingNever coming to rest
- sustainedKept up continuously
constant · steady · persistent · perpetual · nonstop · solid · intact · seamless · gapless · in a row
winning
Achieving victory
momentum · string · stretch · unbroken · uninterrupted · intact · sustained · ongoing · continuing · persistent
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- sequencefirst, second, third, fourth, fifth
- orderingalphabetical, numerical, chronological, ranking, sorting
- sequence wordsfirst, second, third, next, fourth
- sequencesarithmetic, series, geometric, progressions, sequential
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
consecutivenonconsecutive
Not in unbroken sequence
intermittent · interrupted · broken · discontinuous · scattered
consecutivesimultaneous
Happening at same time
concurrent · contemporaneous · synchronous · parallel · coincident
consecutiverandom
Occurring without pattern
disordered · unordered · haphazard · disorganized · jumbled
- consecutive sentencesSequential prison terms
- consecutive numbersIntegers differing by one
- consecutive weeksWeeks without interruption between