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

Today, Shein's challenges are compounded by increasingly tough competition from rival low-cost e-commerce giant Temu.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Young people in China are increasingly visiting temples to pray for career success, higher incomes and passing exams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

In addition, the fight has grown increasingly ugly after Paramount threatened to leave California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

The question facing schools may increasingly be where those guardrails should go.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

He copies down sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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