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Noname 8048 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

progressively vs continuously

I heard they both have a mening of 'with consistant or continuous action or state'

But what distinguishes them?
what is more informal one, and is there grammatical requirement for each of them?
  

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Noname 8048 I heard they both have a mening of 'with consistant or continuous action or state' Where did you hear that? 'Progressively' doesn't mean that to me. com's relevant entry: 3.

— Mister Micawber

  • Noname 8048 I heard they both have a mening of 'with consistant or continuous action or state' Where did you hear that?
  • 'Progressively' doesn't mean that to me.
  • com's relevant entry: 3.
  • characterized by progress, or by continuous improvement.
  • going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
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Noname 8048I heard they both have a mening of 'with consistant or continuous action or state'
Where did you hear that? 'Progressively' doesn't mean that to me. Here is Dict.com's relevant entry:

3. characterized by progress, or by continuous improvement.
5.going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the
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Well, actually they had their own usage?
So 'progressively' seems to have meaning of 'with progress(improvement or movement)', and continuously is literally adverb of continuous? Did I get that right?
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Noname 8048So 'progressively' seems to have meaning of 'with progress(improvement or movement)', and continuously is literally adverb of continuous? Did I get that right?
Yes, that's how I use them.
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