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little by little
adjective as in piecemeal
Strongest match
Weak matches
adverb as in bit by bit
Weak matches
adverb as in by degrees
adverb as in gradually
adverb as in one by one
Weak matches
adverb as in partially
adverb as in partly
Weak matches
- at best
- at most
- at worst
- bit by bit
- by degrees
- carelessly
- halfway
- in a general way
- in bits and pieces
- in part
- in some measure
- in some ways
- inadequately
- incompletely
- insufficiently
- measurably
- not entirely
- not fully
- not strictly speaking
- not wholly
- notably
- noticeably
- piece by piece
- piecemeal
- relatively
- so far as possible
- to a certain degree
- to a certain extent
- up to a certain point
- within limits
Example Sentences
Paul was undeterred, and little by little he wore Anthony down.
“It happened incrementally, every day, little by little,” Bates said.
As I got older — listening to people, reading books, talking to friends — little by little I came to understand the definition that fit my experiences was anxiety.
As he told me in 2017, “I had my little girl, and I got married. All that trust, I built it, little by little with my family members,” he said.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” Francis wrote.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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