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growingly

growingly

1 4.5
Happening more and more as time passes
  • adverb
  • /ˈɡroʊɪŋli/
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  • As technology advances, people are growingly reliant on their smartphones for everyday tasks.

Examples

  • Romano, in discussing a request by local resident Art Cyr, suggested this week that the town consider looking into combating the EPA's growingly stringent regulations.

    Blog text (32)

  • But, you know, think about feeding a growing and growingly prosperous population worldwide.

  • Yeah, growingly, growingly you're, you're seeing two things which I think are very, very encouraging.

  • It thus projects and embodies community ideas, as communication scholar James Carey wrote, to create and maintain for a growingly dispersed population.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Over the years, the company has been growingly recognized for its commitment to sustainability.

  • The city's population is growingly diverse, with new communities settling in every year.

Synonyms

increasingly
vsgrowingly
618 2.8

More and more over time

is the basic description of an increase in degree over time
progressively
vsgrowingly
35 4.1

It happens more and more over time

means increase in amount rather than slow staged development
incrementally
vsgrowingly
15 3.8

In small steps over time

refers to overall increase, not only small step changes

Antonyms

decreasingly
3.5

In a way that becomes less over time

Surface Forms

growingly positive

Morphology

growingly = growing (transparent) = grow + ing + ly

Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'growing', yielding 'in an increasing way'.

Etymology

The word growingly comes from the word grow ('to get bigger') with -ing and -ly added to make an adverb. So, growingly means 'more and more' or 'in a way that increases over time'.