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UK
/pɹəɡɹˈɛsɪvli/
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[ US /pɹɑˈɡɹɛsɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /pɹɑˈɡɹɛsɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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advancing in amount or intensity
she became increasingly depressed
How To Use progressively In A Sentence
- It gets progressively more demanding, too, taking a good 12 hours of study to absorb.
- In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene. Caesars’ Wives
- In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene. Caesars’ Wives
- The decline became progressively steeper the older the civil servants were at the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
- You don't want to lose that excited edge, but you should also be getting progressively more comfortable as dates go by.
- Moving progressively towards a thick mashed potato consistency is well on the way to a normal diet.
- Renewable energy will become progressively more important as time goes on.
- Each stitch of the continuous suture is made larger on the vein than on the artery, and the size of the vein is thus progressively reduced and a good union ensured. Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture
- Progressively, larger objects substantially increase the timescale for collapse over still longer wavelengths.
- Then, while still contracting, the star cools through yellow and red-hot, and the protyle condenses into progressively heavier elements.