consecutively

[ kuhn-sek-yuh-tiv-lee ]

adverb

1. one after another, or one part after another, without interruption; in succession:

   The twelve weeks of unpaid leave must be taken consecutively and cannot be spread throughout the year.

   Some people prefer to read here and there in the book rather than start at the beginning and read consecutively through to the end.

2. in a logically ordered way:

   With less than three months to live, he could neither think consecutively nor express himself coherently.

Other Words From

• non·con·sec·u·tive·ly adverb
• un·con·sec·u·tive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of consecutively¹

consecutive ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

In other words, the more it plays, the better its odds of winning, so playing a lot of hands consecutively may have helped the AI nudge out the humans in this case.

From Singularity Hub 

Then it’s on to Saturday, when the games are played consecutively, not concurrently, allowing completists like myself to enjoy a stress-free day.

From FiveThirtyEight

It began as a way to lift city morale after a devastating earthquake, and it’s now the oldest consecutively held annual race in the world.

From Outside Online

The battery life of the Libratone Q Adapt headphones claims more than 20 hours, and while I didn’t push them for that long consecutively, I had no problem with them lasting through some very long travel days.

From Popular-Science

I watch as students try to arrange the right angles consecutively.

From Quanta Magazine

Another issues a comic proposal to rerun all of the Tours consecutively starting next month and through November.

From The Daily Beast

Judge Chin said his sentence—officially “1800 months”—was for 11 felony counts to be served consecutively.

From The Daily Beast

Sholay ran consecutively for five years in one Mumbai theater.

From The Daily Beast

He was still able to think consecutively, although his thoughts were cloudy and but dimly realised.

From Project Gutenberg

A few dozen of them taken consecutively, would form a whole history of wrong, and suffering, and bitter sorrow.

From Project Gutenberg

Each copy was to be numbered consecutively, though many are found without the number.

From Project Gutenberg

Here the houses are numbered consecutively, and you can't tell by a number where a house is.

From Project Gutenberg

Her father's friend, her own protector—in that light she regarded Cranley, when she was well enough to think consecutively.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• successively