increasinglyin‧creas‧ing‧ly /ɪnˈkriːsɪŋli/ ●●○ W2 adverb 
Examples
Marketing techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Increasingly, young people distrust all forms of government.
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Increasingly, humans and animals are in competition for the same land.
- Increasingly, people are relying on interactive media for a variety of services.
- As she watched him, Jody felt increasingly sure that she had made the right choice.
- As the years passed, Celia became increasingly lonely and withdrawn.
- It is getting increasingly difficult for the US to remain competitive in consumer products.
- The rebel group's actions have become increasingly violent.
- As resources become increasingly scarce, choices have to be made and priorities set.
- As the trial progressed, and the evidence mounted up, it became increasingly difficult to take the plea seriously.
- From the 1950s onward, these goals became increasingly entangled.
- His primary insight being anatomical, Kuypers was concerned with increasingly powerful ways of tracing fibre connections.
- Modern economies are increasingly interdependent; policy-relevant research therefore requires large-scale, carefully targeted initiatives.
- The campaign was snowballing and life was getting increasingly hectic.
- The increase in manufacturing unit wage costs is at its lowest level since 1989 and is increasingly in line with Britain's main competitors.
Longman Language Activatormore than before► more
Collocations · The new airport will just mean more noise, more traffic problems and higher land prices.more than · I'm sure I weigh more than last year.more something than · There are far more game shows on TV than there used to be.much more/a lot more/a little more etc · Derek earns a lot more now than he did in his previous job.more and more (=in a number or degree that steadily increases) · More and more people are retiring early.· It became more and more obvious that the boy was using drugs.
► more · People are using mobile phones more because they are cheaper.more than · Visitors to the centre complained about the service more than last year.more than ever before · Our future competitiveness and prosperity depend more than ever before on technology and industry.more and more (=continuously increasing) · More and more, we are finding that students lack basic skills when they enter college.
► a growing number/an increasing number use this when the number of people that are doing something is not yet very large, but is increasing all the time: a growing number/an increasing number of: · Hong Kong was having to provide for a growing number of refugees.· Milo is one of a growing number of politicians who have become dissatisfied with the current government. an ever-increasing/ever-growing number of (=a number that is increasing all the time): · The islanders are trying to protect their environment from the ever-increasing number of Australian tourists.in growing/increasing numbers: · "Suite" hotels -- with full kitchens and sitting rooms -- are dotting the roadside in increasing numbers.
► increasingly continuing to happen more often than before - use this when something is becoming more common but still does not happen all the time: · As the years passed, Celia became increasingly lonely and withdrawn.· Increasingly, people are relying on interactive media for a variety of services.
► greater formal use this about a feeling or condition that is stronger or more noticeable than it was before: · After the war, the country began to enjoy greater prosperity.· The new legislation gave girls greater access to sports in schools.greater than: · The need for people with computing skills is greater than ever before.
► higher use this about prices, speeds, or amounts that are bigger than they were before: · There is now a higher proportion of women in management jobs.· By focusing on quality rather than price, Bangalore's firms hope to secure higher profit margins.higher than: · The cost of student accommodation is higher than it was a year ago.
► increased greater than in the past: · After childbirth there is always an increased risk of back trouble.· Increased interest in healthy foods and the environment has led to greater consumer influence.
► gain ground if a belief, idea etc is gaining ground , more and more people believe it, do it etc: · an approach which is gaining ground in schools· Evangelical Christianity has been gaining ground since the Second World War.· Laurent died in 1853, but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years.
to become stronger, angrier etc than before► get/become · As the days passed, Martha became more worried. · As you get older, your joints and muscles tend to get weaker.· I knew that if I resisted, he would get even angrier.· The mysterious phone calls were becoming more frequent.
► grow in/gain in to gradually get more of a useful or valuable quality: · The festival has been growing in popularity.· The business has continued to grow in productivity and profitability.· She gradually gained in self-confidence and ability.
► more use this to show that there is more of a quality or feeling than at another time: · It will gradually become more cloudy later in the day.more ... than: · I guess Marlene is more neurotic than she used to be.a lot/much/far more: · Everything was much more difficult than it is these days.more and more: · The train went more and more slowly, and finally stopped completely.· We became more and more determined to succeed.
► increasingly if someone or something is becoming increasingly difficult, important etc, they are continuing to become more difficult, more important etc as time passes: · As she watched him, Jody felt increasingly sure that she had made the right choice.become/get increasingly: · It is getting increasingly difficult for the US to remain competitive in consumer products.
► heightened heightened feelings are felt more strongly: · heightened concerns about crime and violence in schools· A heightened awareness of healthy eating may lead to considerable benefits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► increasingly likely
Word family· The project looked increasingly likely to fail.
► increasingly popular· Business management courses are increasingly popular.
► increasingly unlikely (=more and more unlikely as time passes)· It looks increasingly unlikely that the Bank of England will cut interest rates.
► increasingly unpopular (=more and more unpopular as time passes)· The war was becoming increasingly unpopular.
► increasingly violent· Over the past year, his behavior has become increasingly violent.
► increasingly worried· The family became increasingly worried about her safety.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► apparent· Tracy shows us her feelings a lot more, increasingly apparent in video shots of her when she received the Beefeater trophy.· It is now increasingly apparent that the entire universe from vast galaxies to microscopic cells unfolds through systems of spontaneous self-organization.· Recently, it has become increasingly apparent this economic approach is limited.· So let us turn to another increasingly apparent fact: Gore probably won more votes than Bush in Florida too.· This will become increasingly apparent throughout the rest of this book.· Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.· It is increasingly apparent that the context of an election is important in shaping its result.· As we emerge from the recession that will become increasingly apparent.
► aware· He slid on top of Solveig, kissing her, increasingly aware of ripples in her body beneath him.· But after so many of these experiences, we ought to be becoming increasingly aware of the danger.· The major political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, were increasingly aware of the need to compete for working-class support.· Archaeologists are becoming increasingly aware of the high cost and destructiveness of excavation.· The Trust has become increasingly aware, as funding becomes available, of the unrivalled educational resource of its properties.· In the work of both painters one becomes increasingly aware of the fact that they are making use of a variable viewpoint.· Colleges and Catholic schools at a time when both are increasingly aware of the need to co-operate more closely with each other.· She was increasingly aware of the way he was holding her.
► clear· It's becoming increasingly clear that Class War's gone soft, what with the film and the book.· And it became increasingly clear to his closest friends that he could not live comfortably with success.· Lessons from the past Since the 1960s the impact of good management at school level has been increasingly clear.· After Galileo s stargazing it became increasingly clear that the Earth was just another planet, part of some one else s heavens.· But there was a better notion; it grew increasingly clear in his mind.· That message will become increasingly clear.· But it became increasingly clear that he did not.· What is increasingly clear, however, is that the effects of advertising do not depend only on what the advertiser does.
► competitive· Training for partners and staff is necessary and costly although important in an increasingly competitive market.· Warner Digital Studios is one of a handful of studio in-house operations that have entered the increasingly competitive visual effects business.· The continuity of such investment is key to the generation of consistently improving operating results in increasingly competitive markets.· Finally, it is essential to develop more cost-effective rockets in an increasingly competitive international market for commercial and scientific launch services.· In an increasingly competitive market, there is evidence of quantitative and qualitative success.· Conditions of service are attractive and increasingly competitive.· They were, however, undergoing significant change in response to an increasingly competitive and volatile business environment.
► complex· Second, the information technology market is becoming increasingly complex.· Subsequent period-doubling bifurcations appear as r is increased, resulting in increasingly complex periodic solutions.· The adventure will become increasingly complex, deadly and demanding as it progresses.· Very enjoyable when young, but increasingly complex with bottle age.· During the past decade fundraisers' search for new donors has been increasingly complex and expensive.· With Gibbons to guide me, I examine them one by one, and my salads grow increasingly complex.· Even the General Staff is but one actor in an increasingly complex policy process.· But it was the omnipresent manufacturer's logo woven into increasingly complex designs that really offended the fashion police.
► concerned· Local conservationists have become increasingly concerned about the impact of the booming trade in wild fungi in the region.· Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.· Research is increasingly concerned with evaluation of services as well as assessment of need.· I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.· Police became increasingly concerned for their prisoner's health over the weekend.· Feminist psychologists are also increasingly concerned to avoid dogmatism and prescription.· Field studies were also important for early efforts to monitor the environment, an area with which governments were increasingly concerned.· Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not.
► difficult· But debts were becoming increasingly difficult to bring home.· Not only were the funds difficult to find but it was becoming increasingly difficult to justify such expenditure on newspapers.· But landing Domingo has grown increasingly difficult.· Life becomes increasingly difficult for those who refuse.· Otherwise, it will then become increasingly difficult to re-establish your authority at a later stage.· Warm, affectionate moments may become less frequent and increasingly difficult to achieve.
► important· Its role, however, is increasingly important as an ancillary to selling both in the receiving and giving senses.· Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.· The use of corpora is becoming increasingly important in the production of dictionaries.· This latter aim is increasingly important amidst debates about what health insurance should cover.· This use of new spatial sensations was to become an increasingly important feature of Braque's work.· It became increasingly important that observed falls be linked to recovered samples of meteorites.· But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreign corporate investment is negotiated between leading industrial nations.· That makes film sales an increasingly important measure of profit.
► likely· The increasingly likely dismissal of President Abdurrahman Wahid is grabbing most attention.· It is increasingly likely that many of the lessons learnt at Wharram Percy apply to settlements elsewhere in the country.· As stockpiles dwindled, the continuing impasse in negotiations rendered military conflict increasingly likely.· Despite some similarities, it seems increasingly likely that the pathogenic mechanisms of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are distinct.
► popular· It's increasingly popular and this book's a practical guide to using the remedies.· The most strident noise was the beep-beep of small motor-scooters which were becoming increasingly popular.· It is becoming increasingly popular - why not go along to a meeting near you?· Because bond insurance helps municipalities trim borrowing costs, it has become increasingly popular nationwide.· This method is becoming increasingly popular and has great benefits in terms of aerobatic flying.· Such high-octane tours have become increasingly popular.· But kidnapping as an income source is an increasingly popular and frightening practice.
VERB► become· It becomes increasingly more important to keep your body still, especially when putting.· Still, industry sources acknowledge that stars have greater leverage in such negotiations as the search for prime-time hits becomes increasingly desperate.· Third, the market - and especially the financial sector - is becoming increasingly global in nature.· As Tim grew older, his father became increasingly involved in parenting.· Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment.· My constituents who are in prison - I hope not for too long - are becoming increasingly disaffected.· But as the separation from her husband lengthened, she found herself becoming increasingly despondent.
► come· It was the post-conciliar Church that came increasingly to recognize this as the norm, at least for smaller congregations.· None the less the motivation for it would come increasingly from the scholarship roles of the sociologists in society.· Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework.· In addition, concrete operational children increasingly come to regard punishment by reciprocity as more appropriate than expiatory punishment.· Völkisch opinion on these subjects came increasingly to the fore with simplistic solutions that fitted in well with the Junker statusquo.· Adding to the burden, the money available to students and their families for swelling college tuition increasingly comes with a premium.· But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack.· Whereas William Wilson remained an abstract figure for him, Work had increasingly come to life.
► feel· Now that they had left Naples way behind them she felt increasingly less secure.· As the farmers who held out felt increasingly alone, their methods grew more and more violent.· I have felt increasingly uneasy about such motions in recent months.· Rather than seeing a light at the end of the sanctions tunnel, Hussein felt increasingly boxed in.· He knew he was quite safe, yet he felt increasingly tense as he ascended the steep path in the faint light.· In time, however, a definite emotional feeling begins to arise whereby one feels increasingly attuned to the Cosmos.· This is specially calibrated to feel increasingly firm as the speed rises.· As his silence stretched from seconds into minutes, I felt increasingly embarrassed.
► grow· Meanwhile, state propaganda grows increasingly powerful.· But the sound of it has been growing increasingly insistent, and George W Bush has become its latest target.· We ran out of crisps and conversation and were growing increasingly legless and puzzled.· Predictable starting up a corporate hierarchy grows increasingly uncommon, and frequent movement around the webs of organizational activity is increasing.· Such excellence threw the next hour into even sharper relief with two sides growing increasingly scrappy.· The antiabortion movement grew increasingly aggressive and violent after Reagan took office in 1981.· Wounded loyalty and dignified pathos were her line on stage, although off-stage she grew increasingly self-assertive.· The feminist therapists returned in the afternoon to watch the panel in action-and grew increasingly distressed as they witnessed the proceedings.
► look· Seasoned observers of Angeleno politics can only just believe it, but it looks increasingly as if the fat-cat will win.· As he proceeded, both Challenger and Summerlee looked increasingly astonished.· And Audrey, who looks increasingly like a Cabbage Patch doll, changed her mind about marrying Fred.· But already the whole scheme was looking increasingly doubtful.· For unexpected professional and family reasons this looks increasingly unlikely.· So it is not surprising that the property sector is increasingly looking at opportunities on the Internet.· And it is looking increasingly as if the date will be as much Mr Mandela's own decision as the government's.
► seem· We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful.· But his personal life seemed increasingly to meander and lose point.· In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life.· From political correctness to the flagging tenure system, the right of unadulterated academic lip flapping seems increasingly embattled.· Consequently, this fixation on the earliest, nurturing and nutritive superego-precursor seems increasingly to express itself in the form of drug-addiction.· It will continue to make decisions whose predictable outcomes make the prospect for improvement seem increasingly remote.· In parliamentary systems, too, Prime Ministers seem increasingly active in managing their media relations.· The main Conservative claim to national support, therefore, namely that they had worked an economic miracle, seemed increasingly shallow.
► use· It is being increasingly used to detect weakly magnetized features such as postholes, and more deeply buried sites.· From the eleventh century onwards Persian was increasingly used for books on popular science.· This is because popular photography is increasingly used as social-historical evidence.· They accumulate the trust and dependence of lawmakers, who increasingly use lobbyists to do research on technical bills.· The analogy of war and invasion is increasingly used to make sense of events.· The D trumpet has been increasingly used by modern composers, notably Britten.
WORD FAMILYadjectiveincreasedincreasingnounincreaseverbincreaseadverbincreasingly
more and more all the time: Marketing techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Increasingly, young people distrust all forms of government.