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Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Progressively more.
adv
adv
Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
det
Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
Example Sentences
- "The road gets more and more steep."
- "He started calling more and more frequently."
- "1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace, What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose."
- "The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines."
- "The wound hurt more and more as we walked on."
- "His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage."
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