Gradual Synonyms and Antonyms

grăjo͝o-əl
Proceeding very slowly by degrees
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. gradational
  2. piecemeal
  3. step-by-step
Not steep or abrupt
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. creeping
  2. easy
  3. regular
  4. gentle
  5. continuous
  6. moderate
Antonyms:
  1. sudden
  2. abrupt
  3. steep
  4. infrequent
  5. uneven
  6. intermittent
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Words Related to Gradual

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Gradual Sentence Examples

  • In this gradual way every practical advantage on the part of the patricians was taken away.

  • A gradual refrigeration proceeded through the Pliocene period.

  • Its polity has been of gradual growth, and still retains some features peculiar to itself.

  • All these processes are regarded as a series of manifestations of a vital principle in higher and higher forms. Oken, again, who carries Schelling's ideas into the region of biological science, seeks to reconstruct the gradual evolution of the material world out of original matter, which is the first immediate appearance of God, or the absolute.

  • The inclusion of other books in the Canon was gradual, and was effected only after centuries of debate.

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