more and more
- idiom
:
cada vez más
- People are becoming more and more concerned about climate change.
Examples
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The city is growing more and more crowded.
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She found herself relying more and more on her friends for support.
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As I learned, I started to enjoy the subject more and more.
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She is becoming more and more confident.
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As I practiced speaking, I began to feel more and more comfortable in front of an audience.
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With each passing year, she became more and more knowledgeable about her field.
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Over time, the team worked more and more collaboratively on their projects.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a greater degree
618
2.8
More and more over time
35
4.1
It happens more and more over time
15
3.8
In small steps over time
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'increasingly' is directly and transparently derived from the repetition of 'more' joined by 'and' — the structure signals a growing degree over time. This intensifying/reduplicative pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward composition, so a B1 learner who knows 'more' and 'and' will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
More and more comes from the simple picture of adding extra things again and again. Imagine putting one more stone on a pile each time so the pile grows and grows, and that's why the phrase means 'increasingly'.