INCREASINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does increasingly mean? 

• INCREASINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCREASINGLY has 1 sense:

1. advancing in amount or intensity

  Familiarity information: INCREASINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREASINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advancing in amount or intensity

Synonyms:

increasingly; more and more; progressively

Context example:

she became increasingly depressed

Pertainym:

increasing (becoming greater or larger)

 Context examples 

What would we do without this increasingly cheap companion?

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Increasingly, the disease can also be spread in the hospital.

(Clostridium Difficile Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

An increasingly large body of evidence demonstrates that sleep disturbance increases the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, a 2018 review of research concluded.

(Deep Sleep May Play Role in Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

However, it is no longer in development due to the fact that it causes an increasingly rapid breakdown of other drugs metabolized by the cytochrome P450 enzyme.

(Emivirine, NCI Thesaurus)

However, raising the extra young comes at a great cost to females, so females that lay only three eggs have an advantage over those laying four, and these females become increasingly common.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

Jupiter will see that you will increasingly find and take advantage of lucky breaks and opportunities.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This is a phase when such eruptions on the sun are increasingly rare, but history has shown that they can nonetheless be intense.

(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)

The finding by a European team of researchers has also made it possible to analyse the scientific basis of consciousness, an increasingly important field of neuroscience.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Inside the polar vortex over the increasingly shadowed south pole, there has been a rapid build-up of trace gases that accumulate in the absence of ultraviolet sunlight.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

Yet the dominant meerkats still lived an average of 60% longer than subordinates, as the lower ranking meerkats were increasingly forced to risk more and more time outside the group as they grew older.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)