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encreasingly

encreasingly is the obsolete form of increasingly.

Meaning of increasingly

Adverb

increasingly (not comparable)

  1. Increasing in amount or intensity.
    • After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747
    Synonyms:
    more and more

Origin of encreasingly

From encreasing + -ly.

Questions about encreasingly

What is encreasingly the obsolete form of?
Encreasingly is the obsolete form of increasingly.

Words near encreasingly in the dictionary

  1. encrease
  2. encreased
  3. encreases
  4. encreaseth
  5. encreasing
  6. encreasingly
  7. encreel
  8. encreeled
  9. encreeling
  10. encreels
  11. encrimson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encreasingly (page history and authors); increasingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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