Standard Lemma guide

increasingly

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

adv

Meaning 1

Increasing in amount or intensity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adverb

Meaning 2

advancing in amount or intensity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she became increasingly depressed

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: progressively, more and more

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.

Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: все повече (vse poveče) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Catalan: cada vegada més — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Dutch: in toenemende mate — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Finnish: yhä enemmän — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Finnish: kasvavassa määrin — increasing in amount or intensity
  • French: de plus en plus — increasing in amount or intensity
  • German: zunehmend — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Greek: όλο και περισσότερο (ólo kai perissótero) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Hungarian: egyre — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Hungarian: mind — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Italian: sempre più — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Italian: man a mano — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Italian: in modo crescente — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Italian: progressivamente — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Portuguese: cada vez mais — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Russian: всё бо́льше и бо́льше (vsjo bólʹše i bólʹše) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Russian: всё бо́лее и бо́лее (vsjo bóleje i bóleje) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Russian: в большей степени (v bolʹšej stepeni) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Russian: в большей мере (v bolʹšej mere) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Spanish: cada vez más — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Turkish: gide gide — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Ukrainian: все бі́льше і бі́льше (vse bílʹše i bílʹše) — increasing in amount or intensity
  • Ukrainian: деда́лі бі́льше (dedáli bílʹše) — increasing in amount or intensity
Real reading context

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