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Gradually vs Eventually - What's the difference?

gradually | eventually |

As adverbs the difference between gradually and eventually

is that gradually is in a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly while eventually is in the end.

gradually

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
  • (obsolete) by degrees
  • Human reason doth not only gradually , but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. — Grew.

    eventually

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In the end.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
  • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  • (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
  • Synonyms

    * at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the end

    See also

    * frequently

    See also

    * sooner or later