gradualist
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈɡrædʒuəlɪst/
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gradualista
- The committee decided on a gradualist strategy to implement the new policy over several years.
- gradualist approach
It was not a gradualist lament by Timothy Dwight.
- It was not a gradualist lament by Timothy Dwight.
Examples
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But it chose a gradualist approach that precluded immediate drastic improvements.
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This means that, despite an increasingly general acceptance of the free trade doctrine, a highly prudent, gradualist course is followed in which the state does not take a single step that is not accompanied by safeguards designed to cushion the domestic impact of the opening.
Academic text (1992) -
Again, it would be better to reduce the complexity of the model using a more gradualist approach to model building.
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His scenario is a gradualist one.
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This helps explain the classical gradualist picture of little bits of change at a time.
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Such a gradualist approach is unlikely to satisfy the ecological revolutionaries, nor perhaps some mainstream ecologists.
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The Muslim Brothers articulate a gradualist agenda for change that begins with "the Muslim individual, up to the Muslim family, the Muslim community, and then the Muslim State."
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Conversely, the Uruguayan experience holds out the possibility that the gradualist, consensual reform model should not be dismissed cavalierly.
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Shanghai historian Xiao Gongqin promoted this gradualist approach on how the state could gradually facilitate social and economic reforms and transform traditional values and behavior.
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In 1847, his provocative Discourses on Christian Nurture appeared, challenging the revival paradigm of instant conversion with an "organic" and gradualist approach that championed the work of the Christian home and family in shaping the child.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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3.0
Happening slowly and steadily, not suddenly
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8.2
Supporting change that happens slowly in small steps
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8.7
Describing how mountains and valleys form slowly over a long time
Supporting slow change over time as an explanation for development
Antonyms
How Gradual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gradualist comes from the same root as grade and graduate, from an old Latin word gradus meaning 'step' and the ending -ist that names a person or idea. So a gradualist approach is about change happening 'step by step' rather than all at once.