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With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
Howard Carter

Meaning of "gradually" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRADUALLY

gradually  [ˈɡrædʒʊəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRADUALLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gradually is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES GRADUALLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gradually in the English dictionary

The definition of gradually in the dictionary is in small stages over a long period of time, rather than suddenly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRADUALLY


actually
ˈæktʃʊəlɪ
annually
ˈænjʊəlɪ
casually
ˈkæʒʊəlɪ
continually
kənˈtɪnjʊəlɪ
contractually
kənˈtræktʃʊəlɪ
eventually
ɪˈvɛntʃʊəlɪ
hourly
ˈaʊəlɪ
individually
ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒʊəlɪ
manually
ˈmænjʊəlɪ
mutually
ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪ
poorly
ˈpʊəlɪ
purely
ˈpjʊəlɪ
securely
sɪˈkjʊəlɪ
sexually
ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪ
spiritually
ˈspɪrɪtʃʊəlɪ
surely
ˈʃʊəlɪ
unusually
ʌnˈjuːʒʊəlɪ
usually
ˈjuːʒʊəlɪ
virtually
ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪ
visually
ˈvɪʒʊəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRADUALLY

gradiometer
gradual
gradualism
gradualist
gradualistic
graduality
gradualness
graduand
graduate
graduate school
graduate student
graduated
graduated pension
graduated pension scheme
graduateship
graduation
graduation ceremony
graduation day
graduator
gradus

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRADUALLY

asexually
automatically
biannually
conceptually
consensually
contextually
dually
effectually
equally
factually
habitually
ineffectually
instinctually
perceptually
perpetually
ritually
semiannually
sensually
squally
textually
unequally

Synonyms and antonyms of gradually in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GRADUALLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gradually» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gradually

Translation of «gradually» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRADUALLY

Find out the translation of gradually to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gradually from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gradually» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

逐渐地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gradualmente
570 millions of speakers

English

gradually
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धीरे धीरे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تَدْرِيجيّاً
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

постепенно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gradualmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

graduality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

graduellement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Graduan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nach und nach
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

徐々に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

점차
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gradualitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dần dần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

graduality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हळूहळू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Aşamalılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gradualmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stopniowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поступово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

treptat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σταδιακά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geleidelik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gradvis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gradvis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gradually

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRADUALLY»

The term «gradually» is very widely used and occupies the 10.949 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRADUALLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gradually» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gradually» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gradually

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10 QUOTES WITH «GRADUALLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gradually.
1
John Abercrombie
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
2
Namie Amuro
If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
3
Avi
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
4
Camilla Belle
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
5
Sydney Brenner
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
6
Thomas Bulfinch
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
7
Martin Van Buren
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
8
Howard Carter
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
9
Carol P. Christ
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
10
Joel Coen
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRADUALLY»

Discover the use of gradually in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gradually and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature
At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays--many never before anthologized.
Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, 2007
2
Gradually Forgetting Righteousness: The Story of A Town ...
A story of a rural southern county where a corrupt sheriff is arrested and sent to prison.
Fritz Fountain, 2009
3
A bivariate test of goodness of fit based on a gradually ...
An important area of Statistical Inference relates to the problem of assessing the conformity or goodness of fit of some observations to a null hypothesis.
José Kreimerman, 1975
4
Flow in Open Channels
Gradually. Varied. Flow. Computations. Almost all major hydraulic-engineering activities in free-surface flow involve the computation of GVF profiles. Considerable computational effort is involved in the analysis of problems, such as (a) ...
K. Subramanya, 2009
5
Locomotion: Volume 7: Locomotion
Swimming Time time at Total Velocity between maximum Num- length Weight increments increments velocity Species ber (cm) (g) (cm sec") (min) (min) Petromyzon ma. mus 53 14.5-39.0 5-100 Gradually to prescribed velocity 10 Petromyzon ...
‎1979
6
Stardust: The Musings of a Gradually Awakening Soul
A psychotherapist describes the experience that convinced her of life after death, recounts her contact with Osirin, a spirit, and shares his teachings
Becca Zinn, 1987
7
A Textbook of Strength of Materials
(B) Numerical Problems A tensile load of 50 kN is gradually applied to a circular bar of 5 cm diameter and 4 m long. If the value of E = 2.0 x 105 N/mm2, determine : (i) stretch in the rod, (ii) stress in the rod, and (iii) strain energy absorbed by the ...
R. K. Bansal, 2010
8
An Invitation to Health 2009-2010 Edition
Progressive overloading — gradually State of fitness after adaptation to overload Figure 5.3 The Overload Principle By increasing frequency, intensity, or duration, you will improve your level of fitness. Once your body adapts (becomes ...
Dianne Hales, 2008
9
The Libyan Economy: Economic Diversification and ...
The Wholesale, Retail, Restaurant, and Hotel Sector has again risen very gradually, from a base of 27,400 in 1962 to 69,500 in 2000. Its gradual rise is shown by the decade-average figures for this sector – 28,275 in the 1960s, 42,710 in the ...
Waniss Otman, Erling Karlberg, 2007
10
The Pocket Formulary and Synopsis of the British & Foreign ...
wax, add the gum, and triturate briskly with a warm pestle, gradually adding the rest of the liquid, and stirring constantly while'it cools. EMULSIO Carson. Spermaceti 5ij, yolk of one egg, or q. s. ; beat together, and gradually add water fgviiss, ...
Henry Beasley, 1872

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRADUALLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gradually is used in the context of the following news items.
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Life gradually returning to Ocean City sea floor as reef restoration …
OCEAN CITY, Maryland — A few miles off the coast of Ocean City, a wave picked up the 56-foot Morning Star headboat and took no care in its ... «Greenfield Daily Reporter, Jul 15»
2
SAA gradually on the mend: acting CEO
Johannesburg - Troubled South African Airways is not out of the woods yet despite slight improvements yielded by the 90-day action plan to ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Roman streets of ancient Soli gradually unearthed
A two-month excavation process will start next week in the ancient city of Soli Pompeipolis in Mersin's Mezitli. Its goal is to unearth the rest of a ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
4
Bumblebees gradually losing ground and dying as a result of …
As a result of the climate change and global warming, these important pollinators-bumblebees- are struggling to adapt and are gradually dying ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
5
Facebook Gradually Enters the Medical Industry
Facebook Social networking giant Facebook is quickly becoming a powerful ally for the business interests of the medical profession. Last year ... «The Costa Rica Star, Jul 15»
6
Fuel price monitoring is 'gradually improving'
SOME of the measures for more effective monitoring of the price of fuel imports are already being implemented, with the rest to follow soon, ... «Cyprus Mail, Jul 15»
7
Q2 Weather: Gradually warming with an increasing chance of rain
After a cooler than average afternoon today, temperatures will begin to warm. The threat of storms turns up a bit by Friday. Temperatures today ... «KTVQ Billings News, Jul 15»
8
Siltation Gradually Choking Lake Magadi
Magadi — The late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai once said: "We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
9
Russia to sell inflation-linked OFZs gradually - minister
UFA, Russia, July 8 Russia plans to sell inflation-linked OFZ government bonds gradually depending on demand for the new instrument, ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
10
Growing, yet aging—gradually
In Railinc's annual review of the North American locomotive fleet, data showed the fleet continued growing in 2014. Locomotives have long ... «RailwayAge Magazine, Jul 15»

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