Phrase guide

more and more

adv · det · 5 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

Progressively more.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: degree

Examples

  • The road gets more and more steep.
  • He started calling more and more frequently.
  • 1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace, What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adv

Meaning 2

In a manner that progressively increases.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: manner

Examples

  • The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adv

Meaning 3

Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: modal

Examples

  • More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

det

Meaning 4

Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • There are more and more people who keep pets these days.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adverb

Meaning 5

advancing in amount or intensity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she became increasingly depressed

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: increasingly, progressively

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: ավելի ու ավելի (aveli u aveli) — progressively more
  • Catalan: cada vegada més — progressively more
  • Catalan: cada cop més — progressively more
  • Catalan: més i més — progressively more
  • Chinese Mandarin: 越來越 /越来越 (yuèláiyuè) — progressively more
  • Dutch: meer en meer — progressively more
  • Finnish: yhä enemmän — progressively more
  • French: de plus en plus — progressively more
  • German: immer — progressively more
  • Hungarian: egyre ... -bb/-abb/-ebb/-obb — progressively more
  • Interlingua: cata vice plus — progressively more
  • Interlingua: de plus in plus — progressively more
  • Interlingua: plus e plus — progressively more
  • Italian: viepiù — progressively more
  • Italian: sempre più — progressively more
  • Japanese: ますます (masumasu) — progressively more
  • Japanese: 更に (sara ni) — progressively more
  • Latin: magis magisque — progressively more
  • Macedonian: повеќе и повеќе (poveḱe i poveḱe) — progressively more
  • Macedonian: сѐ повеќе (sè poveḱe) — progressively more
  • Macedonian: сѐ повеќе и повеќе (sè poveḱe i poveḱe) — progressively more
  • Polish: coraz więcej — progressively more
  • Polish: coraz — progressively more
  • Portuguese: cada vez mais — progressively more
  • Romanian: din ce în ce mai — progressively more
  • Romanian: tot mai — progressively more
  • Russian: бо́льше и бо́льше (bólʹše i bólʹše) — progressively more
  • Russian: всё бо́льше (vsjo bólʹše) — progressively more
  • Spanish: cada vez más — progressively more
  • Swedish: allt — progressively more
  • Swedish: mer och mer — progressively more
  • Volapük: ai plu — progressively more
  • Chinese Mandarin: 越來越 /越来越 (yuèláiyuè) — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Finnish: yhä enemmän — in a manner that progressively increases
  • German: immer mehr — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Hungarian: egyre jobban — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Italian: viepiù — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Polish: coraz bardziej — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Polish: coraz — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Portuguese: cada vez mais — in a manner that progressively increases
  • Chinese Mandarin: 越來越多地 /越来越多地 (yuèláiyuè duō de) — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Finnish: yhä enemmän — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Finnish: yhä useammin — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • German: mehr und mehr — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • German: im zunehmenden Maße — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Hungarian: egyre inkább — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Polish: coraz więcej — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Portuguese: cada vez mais — indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
  • Chinese Mandarin: 越來越多地 /越来越多地 (yuèláiyuè duō de) — increasingly more
  • Finnish: yhä enemmän — increasingly more
  • Finnish: yhä useampi — increasingly more
  • German: immer mehr — increasingly more
  • German: zunehmend mehr — increasingly more
  • Polish: coraz więcej — increasingly more