gradually

English

Etymology

gradual +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/
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Hyphenation: grad‧u‧al‧ly

Adverb

gradually (comparative more gradually, superlative most gradually)

In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
(obsolete) by degrees
- 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:
  Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.

Synonyms

(making slow progress): ponderously, sluggishly; See also Thesaurus:slowly
(by degrees): incrementally, step by step, See also Thesaurus:gradually

Derived terms

gradually typed

Translations

in gradual manner

Arabic: شَيْئاً فَشَيْئاً (šayʔan fašayʔan), خُطْوةً فَخُطْوةً (ḵuṭwatan faḵuṭwatan), تَدْرِيجِيّاً (tadrījiyyan)
North Levantine Arabic: معو معو (maʕu maʕu), شوي شوي (šway šway)
Armenian: աստիճանաբար (hy) (astičanabar)
Azerbaijani: tədricən
Belarusian: паступо́ва (pastupóva)
Bulgarian: постепенно (bg) (postepenno)
Catalan: gradualment (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逐漸／逐渐 (zh) (zhújiàn), 漸漸／渐渐 (zh) (jiànjiàn), 漸次／渐次 (zh) (jiàncì)
Czech: postupně (cs)
Danish: gradvis
Dutch: geleidelijk (nl), allengs (nl), gaandeweg (nl), langzamerhand (nl)
Esperanto: grade, malabrupte
Finnish: asteittain (fi), vähitellen (fi)
French: progressivement (fr)
Galician: gradualmente
German: nach und nach (de), allmählich (de), stufenweise (de), schrittweise (de)
Greek: βαθμιαία (el) (vathmiaía), σταδιακά (el) (stadiaká)
Hungarian: fokozatosan (hu)
Italian: gradualmente (it)
Japanese: 段々と (ja) (だんだんと, dandan to), 徐々に (ja) (じょじょに, jojo ni), 次第に (ja) (しだいに, shidai ni)
Korean: 점점 (ko) (jeomjeom), 점차 (ko) (jeomcha), 서서히 (ko) (seoseohi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: وردە وردە (wirde wirde)
Latin: paulātim, gradātim
Macedonian: постепено (postepeno)
Middle English: esiliche
Navajo: tąądee
Norwegian:
Bokmål: etter hvert (no), gradvis, litt etter litt

Nynorsk: etter kvart
Plautdietsch: aulmälich
Polish: stopniowo (pl), krok po kroku (pl)
Portuguese: gradualmente (pt), pouco a pouco (pt)
Romanian: treptat (ro), în mod gradat, progresiv (ro), în mod treptat
Russian: постепе́нно (ru) (postepénno)
Scottish Gaelic: mean air mhean
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀степено

Roman: pòstepeno (sh)
Slovak: postupne
Slovene: postopoma
Spanish: gradualmente, poco a poco (es), paulatinamente (es)
Swedish: gradvis (sv)
Ukrainian: поступо́во (postupóvo), пово́лі (povóli)
Vietnamese: dần dần (vi)

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