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English
Etymology
From gradual + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/
- Hyphenation: grad‧u‧al‧ly
Adverb
gradually (comparative more gradually, superlative most gradually)
- In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times:The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
- (obsolete) by degrees
1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. , : W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.
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in gradual manner
- Arabic: شَيْئاً فَشَيْئاً (šayʔan fašayʔan), خُطْوةً فَخُطْوةً (ḵuṭwatan faḵuṭwatan), تَدْرِيجِيّاً (tadrījiyyan)
- North Levantine Arabic: معو معو (maʕu maʕu), شوي شوي (šway šway)
- Armenian: աստիճանաբար (hy) (astičanabar)
- Azerbaijani: tədricən
- Belarusian: паступо́ва (pastupóva)
- Bulgarian: постепенно (bg) (postepenno)
- Catalan: gradualment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 逐漸／逐渐 (zh) (zhújiàn), 漸漸／渐渐 (zh) (jiànjiàn), 漸次／渐次 (zh) (jiàncì)
- Czech: postupně (cs)
- Danish: gradvis
- Dutch: geleidelijk (nl), allengs (nl), gaandeweg (nl), langzamerhand (nl)
- Esperanto: grade, malabrupte
- Finnish: asteittain (fi), vähitellen (fi)
- French: progressivement (fr)
- Galician: gradualmente
- German: nach und nach (de), allmählich (de), stufenweise (de), schrittweise (de)
- Greek: βαθμιαία (el) (vathmiaía), σταδιακά (el) (stadiaká)
- Hungarian: fokozatosan (hu)
- Italian: gradualmente (it)
- Japanese: 段々と (ja) (だんだんと, dandan to), 徐々に (ja) (じょじょに, jojo ni), 次第に (ja) (しだいに, shidai ni)
- Korean: 점점 (ko) (jeomjeom), 점차 (ko) (jeomcha), 서서히 (ko) (seoseohi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وردە وردە (wirde wirde)
- Latin: paulātim, gradātim
- Macedonian: постепено (postepeno)
- Manchu: ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠶᡝᠨ (ulhiyen), ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠶᡝᠨ
ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠶᡝᠨ ᡳ (ulhiyen ulhiyen-i)
- Middle English: esiliche
- Navajo: tąądee
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: etter hvert (no), gradvis, litt etter litt
- Nynorsk: etter kvart
- Plautdietsch: aulmälich
- Polish: stopniowo (pl), krok po kroku (pl)
- Portuguese: gradualmente (pt), pouco a pouco (pt)
- Romanian: treptat (ro), în mod gradat, progresiv (ro), în mod treptat
- Russian: постепе́нно (ru) (postepénno)
- Scottish Gaelic: mean air mhean
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̀степено
- Roman: pòstepeno (sh)
- Slovak: postupne
- Slovene: postopoma
- Spanish: gradualmente (es), poco a poco (es), paulatinamente (es)
- Swedish: gradvis (sv)
- Ukrainian: поступо́во (postupóvo), пово́лі (povóli)
- Vietnamese: dần dần (vi)
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