| Consecutive 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 Entries 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 |