progressively

SEE DEFINITION OF progressively

as inincreasingly
as inconsecutively
as ingradually

Synonyms for progressively

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Antonyms for progressively

decreasingly
less

increasingly

adverb. to a greater extent

Word Origin & History

c.1600, "characterized by advancement" (in action, character, etc.), from progress (n.) + -ive, or else from French progressif, from past participle stem of Latin progredi. Of taxation, from 1889; of jazz, from 1947. Meaning "characterized by striving for change and innovation, avant-garde, liberal" is from 1908.

In the socio-political sense "favoring reform; radically liberal," it emerged in various British contexts from the 1880s; in the U.S. it was active as a movement in the 1890s and a generation thereafter, the name being taken again from time to time, most recently by some more liberal Democrats and other social activists, by c.2000. The noun in the sense "one who favors social and political change in the name of progress" is first attested 1865 (originally in Christianity). Earlier in a like sense were progressionist (1849, adjective; 1884, noun), progressist (1848). Related: Progressively; progressiveness.

Example Sentences forprogressively

If we cannot solve it progressively, our civilization will go back to chaos.

Thus it seems that there may be saints that are not progressively virtuous.

Still, language does not emerge, as the senses do, but is progressively acquired.

It is progressively conservative—or conservatively progressive.

You aim at the stars, and if you do not hit them you may progressively approach them.

It was then progressively increased, in most cases until the death of the animal.

He made a progressively better fight in their later matches.

There is no doubt that this is progressively towards a delay in marriage.

The signs of the hour had been gradually but progressively increasing.

He has progressively and steadily deteriorated during the last decade.

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