Synonyms:
gradual
Meaning: proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
gradual
Meaning: (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
Usage examples
In France, the Revolution was much more gradual.
Possibly, it may still be subject to gradual elevation.
Fuller waved his arms up and down slowly to the engineer as a signal to come to a gradual stop.
'There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again.
She asked herself questions and with great care sat on foot a gradual and delicate cross-examination of Robin herself.
This change was sudden, extreme, and temporary, and there has since been a gradual adjustment and a return to the former values.
This change in the reigning Emperor, and the gradual advancement of Genji's position, gave the latter greater responsibility, and he had to restrain his wandering.
In this way I succeeded in developing the curative powers of Apis, so that in a few days a gradual improvement, however slight, became perceptible to the careful observer.
When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contraction of its aperture. Its walls, by a gentle incline, were drawing closer to each other, and it was beginning to grow darker.
The natural way to invest and capture so strong a place, defended and fortified as Vicksburg was, would have been, if the axioms of the art of war had been adhered to, by a system of gradual approaches.