increasingly
increasingly adverb: increasing in amount or intensity.
Adverb
increasingly (not comparable)
- 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
- Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15
- Synonyms:
- more and more
increasingly meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
increasingly in Tamil
- மென்மேலும், மேலும் மேலும்
increasingly in Urdu
- بڑھتے ہوئے
increasingly in Bengali
- ক্রমবদ্র্ধিতভাবে
increasingly in Malayalam
- progressively, more and more, to an increasing extent
- വർദ്ധമാനമായി, അധികമായി, കൂടുതലായി, ഒന്നിനൊന്ന്, ഒന്നുക്കൊന്ന്, മേൽക്കുമേൽ
Examples of increasingly in a sentence
- As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
- Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
- They will remind you that rail already faces fierce competition from cars, coaches, airlines, and (increasingly) remote working and videoconferencing.2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 32:
- And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN:
Synonyms of increasingly
Forms of increasingly
| alternative form (obsolete) | encreasingly |
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Origin of increasingly
From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.
Questions about increasingly
- What does increasingly mean?
- Increasingly means increasing in amount or intensity.
- What is increasingly in Tamil?
- Increasingly in Tamil is மென்மேலும், மேலும் மேலும். See Increasingly meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use increasingly in a sentence?
- As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.
- What part of speech is increasingly?
- Increasingly is an adverb.
Words near increasingly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: increasingly (page history and authors); increasingly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); increasingly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); increasingly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); increasingly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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