gradually

adverbcommon in dialogue

//ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli//

In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.

adverb

1
In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
2
obsoleteby degrees
Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.

Etymology

Etymology tree English gradual Middle English -ly English -ly English gradually From gradual + -ly.

Forms

comparative: more gradually
superlative: most gradually

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gradually · In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.

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