Usually means: Slow, steady progression over time.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word gradual:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gradual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gradual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gradual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gradual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gradual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gradual, gradual: Wordnik
  7. gradual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gradual: Wiktionary
  9. gradual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gradual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gradual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gradual, gradual: Dictionary.com
  13. gradual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gradual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gradual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gradual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gradual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gradual: Rhymezone
  19. gradual, gradual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gradual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gradual: Free Dictionary
  22. gradual: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. gradual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gradual: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gradual: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gradual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gradual: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees
noun:  (Christianity) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
noun:  (Christianity) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

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