increasingly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   advancing in amount or intensity

   I became increasingly depressed after the loss of my family in an accident.

2. 2
   adv

   Increasing in amount or intensity.

   After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.

Etymology

From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.