Meanings
- degreeProgressively more.
The road gets more and more steep.
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He started calling more and more frequently.
1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace, What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91 - mannerIn a manner that progressively increases.
The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.
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His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage.
1782, Robert Burns, John BarleycornA third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour For private sorrow’s barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35 - modalIndicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.
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More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.
1864 September, “The Cadmean Madness”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 14
- Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
There are more and more people who keep pets these days.
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It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were. More and more passengers buy tickets online.
2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbadvancing in amount or intensity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan cada vegada més, cada cop més
- cada vegada mésprogressively more
- cada cop mésprogressively more
- més i mésprogressively more
Chinese Mandarin 越來越 /越来越, 越來越 /越来越
- 越來越 /越来越 (yuèláiyuè)progressively more
- 越來越 /越来越 (yuèláiyuè)in a manner that progressively increases
- 越來越多地 /越来越多地 (yuèláiyuè duō de)indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- 越來越多地 /越来越多地 (yuèláiyuè duō de)increasingly more
Dutch meer en meer
- meer en meerprogressively more
Finnish yhä enemmän, yhä enemmän
- yhä enemmänprogressively more
- yhä enemmänin a manner that progressively increases
- yhä enemmänindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- yhä useamminindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- yhä enemmänincreasingly more
- yhä useampiincreasingly more
French de plus en plus
- de plus en plusprogressively more
German immer, immer mehr
- immerprogressively more
- immer mehrin a manner that progressively increases
- mehr und mehrindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- im zunehmenden Maßeindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- immer mehrincreasingly more
- zunehmend mehrincreasingly more
Hungarian egyre ... -bb/-abb/-ebb/-obb, egyre jobban
- egyre ... -bb/-abb/-ebb/-obbprogressively more
- egyre jobbanin a manner that progressively increases
- egyre inkábbindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
Italian viepiù, sempre più
- viepiùprogressively more
- sempre piùprogressively more
- viepiùin a manner that progressively increases
Japanese ますます, 更に
- ますます (masumasu)progressively more
- 更に (sara ni)progressively more
Latin magis magisque
- magis magisqueprogressively more
Polish coraz więcej, coraz
- coraz więcejprogressively more
- corazprogressively more
- coraz bardziejin a manner that progressively increases
- corazin a manner that progressively increases
- coraz więcejindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
- coraz więcejincreasingly more
Portuguese cada vez mais, cada vez mais
- cada vez maisprogressively more
- cada vez maisin a manner that progressively increases
- cada vez maisindicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
Romanian din ce în ce mai, tot mai
- din ce în ce maiprogressively more
- tot maiprogressively more
Russian бо́льше и бо́льше, всё бо́льше
- бо́льше и бо́льше (bólʹše i bólʹše)progressively more
- всё бо́льше (vsjo bólʹše)progressively more
Spanish cada vez más
- cada vez másprogressively more
Swedish allt, mer och mer
- alltprogressively more
- mer och merprogressively more
Cite this entry
more and more. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/more%20and%20more
“more and more.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/more%20and%20more. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “more and more,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/more%20and%20more.
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