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gradual

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a gradual improvement ▪ There has been a gradual improvement in educational standards. a gradual reduction ▪ The markets are hoping for a gradual reduction in interest rates. a gradual shift ▪ There has been a gradual ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices" [ant: sudden ] of a topographical gradient; not steep or abrupt; "a gradual slope" [ant: steep ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "having steps or ridges," from Medieval Latin gradualis , from Latin gradus "step" (see grade (n.)). Meaning "arranged by degrees" is from 1540s; that of "taking place by degrees" is from 1690s.

Usage examples of gradual.

In offering a few hints for the domestic management of these abnormal conditions, we would at the same time remark, that, while health may be regained by skillful treatment, recovery will be gradual.

The transformation of the absolutist and patrimonial model consisted in a gradual process that replaced the theological foundation ofterritorial patrimony with a new foundation that was equally transcendent.

When the tentacles do not begin moving for a much longer time, namely, from half an hour to three or four hours, the particles have been slowly brought into contact with the glands, either by the secretion being absorbed by the particles or by its gradual spreading over them, together with its consequent quicker evaporation.

Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

This time he experienced no gradual climb to consciousness, no algetic banging in his head to pull him up.

He wanted a gradual buildup going toward the election before taking care of those atheistic mutant bastards.

While the gradual introduction of biometric identifiers will help, that process will take years, and a name match will always be useful.

Greek philosophy which taught, clearly and without bombast, the ascent from the cave and the gradual advance of souls to a truer and truer vision.

Authentic Existences but their simulacra--there is nothing here but a jargon invented to make a case for their school: all this terminology is piled up only to conceal their debt to the ancient Greek philosophy which taught, clearly and without bombast, the ascent from the cave and the gradual advance of souls to a truer and truer vision.

These tribes the Jesuits on many occasions attempted to civilize, but almost entirely without success, as the long record of the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries in the Chaco proves, as well as the gradual abandonment of their missions there, towards the second half of the eighteenth century.

Chronic diseases are generally slow in their inception and development and can only be cured by gradual stages.

By gradual degress I saw more clearly, I learned a little of what I knew.

Gradual experiences of his business among his fellows were teaching an exercised mind to learn in regions where minds unexercised were doctorial giants beside it.

Joanne Doss began falling apart, remembered the decline, as had her father, as gradual, insidious, ending in grotesquerie.