Gradually vs Eventually - What's the difference?
gradually | eventually |
In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
(obsolete) by degrees
In the end.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
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
(-)- Human reason doth not only gradually , but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. — Grew.
eventually
English
Adverb
(-)- 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.