increasingly
500
2.8
- adverb
- /ɪnˈkriːsɪŋli/
- As technology advances, people are becoming increasingly reliant on their devices.
- become increasingly
- increasingly popular
- increasingly important
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Watch on YouTubePeople can still use them, but that's increasingly not how investment works.
- People can still use them, but that's increasingly not how investment works.
- So universities are increasingly being asked to take this job on.
- We must address a society that is increasingly not good for our health.
- Narcissism remains something that people are increasingly understanding.
- The anti woke right is increasingly wielding heavy-handed tactics.
- It seems like as a society we're getting increasingly sexless.
- We find that that knowledge work is becoming increasingly complex.
- But this alien way is increasingly being used in more and more fields.
- They are increasingly frustrated about it, it seems.
- There are increasingly more niche markets out there.
- I think we're increasingly being held back by these kinds of issues.
- As long as the strike dragged out, this aspect became increasingly important.
Examples
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Over the following months, she became increasingly isolated.
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And we live in an increasingly technological society.
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And this world is is increasingly built on finance.
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So I have increasingly tried to block out time.
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We must address a society that is increasingly not good for our health.
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But increasingly I think that it is all for fun.
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Like our tour so far, they become increasingly well run.
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People are ending up increasingly with zero or one children.
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And yet, many of us feel increasingly disconnected from one another.
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Our brain's role in time processing becomes increasingly apparent as we get older.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
34
4.1
It happens more and more over time
14
3.8
In small steps over time
1
4.5
Happening more and more as time passes
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
increasingly = increasing (transparent) = increase + ing + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'increasing' (which itself is transparently 'increase' + '-ing'), yielding 'to a greater degree'.
Etymology
Increasingly comes from increase, which means 'to grow' or 'become bigger', and the ending -ly turns it into a word that describes how something happens. So increasingly means 'more and more' over time.