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1. gradual
adjective. ['ˈgrædʒuːəl'] proceeding in small stages.
Etymology
- gradualis (Latin)
- gradus (Latin)
Rhymes with Gradual
- annual
- asexual
- audiovisual
- biannual
- bisexual
- conceptual
- consensual
- consensual
- continual
- contractual
- eventual
- eventual
- factual
- habitual
- ineffectual
- intellectual
- intellectual
- manual
- massmutual
- menstrual
How do you pronounce gradual?
Pronounce gradual as ˈgræʤuəl.
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Sentences with gradual
1. Adjective
Weaning is a puppy's gradual transition from mother's milk to puppy food.
Quotes about gradual
1. My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.
- Ray William Johnson
2. Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
3. The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
- E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
2. gradual
adjective. ['ˈgrædʒuːəl'] (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt.
Antonyms
Etymology
- gradualis (Latin)
- gradus (Latin)