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increasingly

  • adverb

increasing in amount or intensity.

Synonyms

  • more and more
  • progressively

Example sentences

  • “We feel increasingly alienated from our work.”

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Word history

From Middle English "encreessingli".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “increasingly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.