英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/
• ハイフネーション: grad‧u‧al‧ly

副詞

gradually (comparative more gradually, superlative most gradually)

1. In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
   • 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 1 October 2014:

     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.

   • 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post‎:

     The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

2. (obsolete) by degrees
   • 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:

     Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.

同意語

• (making slow progress): ponderously, sluggishly; See also Thesaurus:slowly
• (by degrees): incrementally, step by step, See also Thesaurus:gradually

派生語

• gradually typed