increasingly

American  

[in-kree-sing-lee] / ɪnˈkri sɪŋ li /

adverb

1. to an ever greater degree; more and more: Marketers are increasingly using video to create meaningful emotional connections with their consumers.

   He became increasingly nervous and overwrought and began to suffer bouts of depression.

   Marketers are increasingly using video to create meaningful emotional connections with their consumers.

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Etymology

Origin of increasingly

increasing ( def. ) + -ly

Explanation

This adverb applies to anything that is happening more often, in greater numbers, or with greater intensity. An increasingly hot summer keeps getting hotter. To increase something is to add to it numerically, like increasing the size of your family by having a baby. Anything that happens increasingly is growing in some way. An increasingly depressed person keeps getting sadder. An increasingly sick patient keeps getting worse. An increasingly corrupt government is getting less and less honest. When you see this word, you know something is intensifying.

Example Sentences

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increasingly

There is also increased competition for funds from a new source, with the cost of developing and deploying AI increasingly met through sharply higher borrowing by businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“This is a consumer who is employed, still spending and increasingly disciplined about it,” Hayes added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Unintentionally, and no doubt painfully, the British royal family has, in modern times, increasingly become a high-profile mirror of its subjects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

“People’s expectations are increasingly misaligned with what the apps are actually telling you, and with what weather prediction can tell you in the first place,” he told me.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

By this time, significant discoveries from the wreck were becoming increasingly rare.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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