Definitions for Gradual

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Gradual grad·u·al

Spelling: [graj-oo-uh l]

IPA: /ˈgrædʒ u əl/

Gradual is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in Gradual (aadglru).

Definitions for Gradual

noun

1. Ecclesiastical. (often initial capital letter) an antiphon sung between the Epistle and the Gospel in the Eucharistic service. a book containing the words and music of the parts of the liturgy that are sung by the choir.

adjective

1. taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little:
2. rising or descending at an even, moderate inclination:

Origin of Gradual

1375-1425; late Middle English Medieval Latin graduālis pertaining to steps, graduāle the part of the service sung as the choir stood on the altar steps, equivalent to Latin gradu(s) step,

Examples for Gradual

Tshering is in favor of growth, he says, but a “gradual one and spread throughout the year.”

Now 88 senators are urging the Obama administration to take a very different approach to the group: gradual regime change.

Day by day he had followed the gradual failing of each sense and power.

This excellent woman expired of a gradual decay in the year 1780.

It also traces his days as a juvenile delinquent, and gradual rise up the R&B charts.

Utilizing fear, or taking a reasoned approach to gradual, incremental change?

From some other of the author's letters we are able to trace the gradual growth of the work.

The term immediate is used in contrast with that of gradual.

But the process was gradual, and no one stood near enough to her to remark it.

That sounds small, but the buildup of Hezbollah forces in Syria was gradual, too.