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

"Investors are increasingly pricing in a lasting improvement in the geopolitical backdrop," wrote Fiona Cincotta at City Index.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

And it’s become increasingly important to consider where that gold is being stored.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

“This year’s survey reveals an emergent trend of central banks increasingly looking to diversify gold vaulting locations,” the WGC said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

Although researchers consider the current risk to people low, they say the continued expansion of CWD in wildlife makes surveillance and disease control efforts increasingly important.

From Science Daily • Jun. 16, 2026

But such a model becomes increasingly complicated as we try to describe the behaviour of things further and further away from Earth, across the Solar System.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Related Words

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