progressively

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English progressive

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English progressively

From progressive + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

progressively (comparative more progressively, superlative most progressively)

1. In a progressive manner.

   increase something progressively

   progressively grow

   progressively raise the standards

   The questions get progressively more difficult

2. As part of a progression.

Translations

in a progressive manner

• Catalan: progressivament (ca)
• Esperanto: progrese
• Finnish: edistyksellisesti (fi)
• French: progressivement (fr)
• German: zunehmend (de), stufenweise (de), fortschreitend (de), fortschrittlich (de), abschnittsweise (de), schrittweise (de), immerwährend (de), immer (de) (with comparative)
• Greek: προοδευτικά (el) (proodeftiká)
• Italian: progressivamente (it)
• Polish: postępowo (pl), progresywnie
• Portuguese: progressivamente (pt)
• Romanian: din ce în ce, progresiv (ro), în mod progresiv
• Spanish: progresivamente (es)
• Turkish: basamak basamak (tr), derece derece (tr), giderek (tr), gittikçe (tr), kademe kademe, tedricen (tr), tedricî olarak