increasingly

English

Alternative forms

• encreasingly (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

increasingly (not comparable)

1. Increasing in amount or intensity.
   • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15:

     Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:

     As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.

   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.

   • 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 32:

     They will remind you that rail already faces fierce competition from cars, coaches, airlines, and (increasingly) remote working and videoconferencing.

Synonyms

• more and more

Translations

increasing in amount or intensity

• Bulgarian: все повече (vse poveče)
• Catalan: cada vegada més
• Dutch: in toenemende mate
• Finnish: yhä enemmän, kasvavassa määrin
• French: de plus en plus (fr)
• German: zunehmend (de)
• Hungarian: egyre (hu), mind (hu)
• Italian: sempre più, man a mano, in modo crescente, progressivamente (it)
• Polish: coraz (pl) (when used with comparative)
• Portuguese: cada vez mais
• Russian: всё бо́льше и бо́льше (vsjo bólʹše i bólʹše), всё бо́лее и бо́лее (vsjo bóleje i bóleje), в большей степени (v bolʹšej stepeni), в большей мере (v bolʹšej mere)
• Spanish: cada vez más
• Turkish: gide gide (tr)
• Ukrainian: все бі́льше і бі́льше (vse bílʹše i bílʹše), деда́лі бі́льше (dedáli bílʹše)