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

Example Sentences

The outgoing United Nations refugee chief fears an increasingly fragmented world is fuelling global conflicts and crises, and inflaming hostility towards people desperately fleeing for safety.

From Barron's

While clinicians increasingly recognize that environmental exposure plays a role in patient health, researchers are still working to understand how those exposures influence cancer at the molecular level.

From Science Daily

Pride believes it is unlikely that the increasingly debt-fueled tech boom would go south in a hurry.

From The Wall Street Journal

His pontificate was a steady point of authority in an increasingly unstable world.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cuts have become an increasingly close call because price increases have been more persistent than the Fed would like, the minutes indicated.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• more
• more and more
• progressively