Adjacent Words

Gradually definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRAD'UALLY, adv. By degrees; step by step; regularly; slowly. At evening the light vanishes gradually.
1. In degree. [Not used.]
Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically differ from the fantastic reason of brutes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: in a gradual manner; "the snake moved gradually toward its victim" [syn: gradually, bit by bit, step by step]

Merriam Webster's

adverb see gradual II

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gradually Grad"u*al*ly, adv. 1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. [Obs.] Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. --Grew.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. If something changes or is done gradually, it changes or is done in small stages over a long period of time, rather than suddenly. Electricity lines to 30,000 homes were gradually being restored yesterday... Gradually we learned to cope. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Regularly, in due succession, progressively. 2. By degrees, step by step, little by little, by little and little, a little at a time, slowly, by slow degrees.