different between success vs successive

English

Alternative forms

• successe (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succ?d? (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + c?d? (“go, move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

   His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

   Antonym: failure

2. (business) Financial profitability.

   Don't let success go to your head.

3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

   Scholastically, he was a success.

   The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

   She is country music's most recent success.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• success in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• success in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Latin succedere (“to succeed in”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s?v/
• Rhymes: -?s?v
• Hyphenation: suc?ces?sive

Adjective

successive (not comparable)

1. Coming one after the other in a series.

   They had won the title for five successive years.
2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

   a successive title; a successive empire

Synonyms

• (in a series): consecutive

Derived terms

• successively
• nonsuccessive

Related terms

• succeed
• success

Translations

French

Adjective

successive

1. feminine singular of successif

Italian

Adjective

successive

1. feminine singular of successivo

Latin

Adjective

success?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of success?vus

References

• successive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Swedish

Adjective

successive

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of successiv.