Dictionary 1. (a.) Succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted\ in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.2. (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. 3. (a.) 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. Thesaurus 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 |