increasinglyadverb
uk/ɪnˈkriː.sɪŋ.li/us/ɪnˈkriː.sɪŋ.li/B2 more and more:
to be increasingly important/common
Increasingly, there is pressure on the council to reverse its decision.
More examples
- She thinks that young people today are becoming increasingly selfish.
- He became increasingly muddled as he grew older.
- Ben began to get increasingly irritated by her questions.
- Judges are imposing increasingly heavy fines for minor driving offences.
- The panda is becoming an increasingly rare animal.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Also, extra, and in addition
- added
- additional
- again
- along
- also
- case
- excess
- for good measure idiom
- for luck idiom
- furthermore
- hand
- have sth in hand idiom
- say
- second 1
- thirdly
- to boot idiom
- to cap it all idiom
- to say nothing of ... idiom
- together
- yet
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