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# progressively

«progressively» in Mova's school dictionary: **Steadily and step by step, more and more over time: «It…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (progressively; from the adjective progressive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Steadily and step by step, more and more over time: «It got progressively colder». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#m1)

2) In a progressive, forward-looking way (rare). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science, maths and stories for change that keeps growing: progressively harder questions, progressively darker sky. In maths it describes sequences that keep increasing or decreasing. Phrases: «progressively worse», «progressively better», «progressively harder», «progressively more».

### examples

- The questions get progressively harder as you go down the page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x1)
- It grew progressively darker as the sun set. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x2)
- My reading has got progressively better this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x3)
- The noise got progressively louder as the parade came closer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x4)
- The path became progressively steeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x5)
- In the sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, the numbers get progressively bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x6)
- His cough got progressively worse, so he went to the doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/#x7)

### note

Spelling: progress + ive + ly (double s). Similar: «gradually», «increasingly», «steadily». In maths it signals a pattern of change, but not which kind: adding the same amount (2, 4, 6, 8) or multiplying (2, 4, 8, 16) are both «progressively bigger».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «progressively» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/progressively/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.