gradually

Definition

In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.

Etymology

From gradual + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently."
• "The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words."
• "Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft."

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