increasingly

increasingly

English

Alternative forms

• encreasingly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

increasingly (not comparable)

1. increasing in amount or intensity
   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎:

     Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.

Synonyms

• more and more

Translations

increasing in amount or intensity

Bulgarian: все повече (vse poveče) Catalan: cada vegada més Finnish: yhä enemmän, kasvavassa määrin German: zunehmend (de)

Hungarian: egyre (hu), mind (hu) Russian: всё бо́льше и бо́льше (vsjó bólʹše i bólʹše), всё бо́лее и бо́лее (vsjó bóleje i bóleje), в большей степени (v bolʹšej stepeni), в большей мере (v bolʹšej mere) Spanish: cada vez más Turkish: gide gide (tr)