Your English has made gradual progress.
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Gradual
//ˈɡɹadʒuəl//
Synonyms for "gradual" (101 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (50)
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More general
2 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
55 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَدْرِيجِيّ adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Asturian
1 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Belarusian
1 entries- паступо́вы adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Bulgarian
2 entries- постепенен adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- тропар noun (antiphone or responsory)
Catalan
1 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 平緩的 /平缓的 adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- 逐漸的 /逐渐的 adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Czech
2 entries- postupný adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- stupňovitý adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Danish
4 entries- gradvis adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- trinvis adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graduale noun (antiphone or responsory)
- graduale noun (service book)
Dutch
2 entries- geleidelijk adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- gestaag adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Esperanto
1 entries- malabrupta adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Finnish
4 entries- asteittainen adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- vähittäinen adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graduaali noun (antiphone or responsory)
- graduaali noun (service book)
French
1 entries- graduel adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Galician
1 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
German
3 entries- allmählich adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graduell adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- schrittweise zunehmend adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Greek
2 entries- βαθμιαίος adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- σταδιακός adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Hungarian
1 entries- fokozatos adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Irish
1 entries- dréimreach adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Italian
3 entries- graduale adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graduale noun (antiphone or responsory)
- graduale noun (service book)
Latin
2 entries- graduāle noun (antiphone or responsory)
- graduāle noun (service book)
Lithuanian
1 entries- laipsniškas adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Macedonian
1 entries- постепен adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Occitan
3 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- gradual noun (antiphone or responsory)
- gradual noun (service book)
Polish
3 entries- stopniowy adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graduał noun (antiphone or responsory)
- graduał noun (service book)
Portuguese
1 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Russian
2 entries- пла́вный adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- постепе́нный adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pòstupan adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- по̀ступан adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Spanish
2 entries- gradual adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- paulatino adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Swedish
1 entries- gradvis adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Ukrainian
1 entries- поступо́вий adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Welsh
2 entries- cynyddol adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
- graddol adj (proceeding by steps or small degrees)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Computers caused a great, if gradual, change.
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The gradual ruin of our country has to be stopped.
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It's a gradual thing.
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