Synonyms of the word

gradual

• adj. Proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state…
• n. (Roman Catholic Church) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the…
• n. (Roman Catholic Church) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

antiphon

• n. A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
• n. A response or reply.

antiphony

• n. (music, singing) alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted…
• n. alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

gentle

• adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
• adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
• adj. Docile and easily managed.
• adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
• adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude.
• adj. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
• v. (intransitive) to become gentle.
• v. (transitive) to ennoble.
• v. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate.
• v. (transitive) To soothe; to calm.
• n. (archaic) A person of high birth.
• n. (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
• n. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

gradational

• adj. By regular steps or gradations.
• adj. Of or pertaining to gradation.

gradatory

• n. (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
• adj. Proceeding step by step; gradual.
• adj. (zoology) Suitable for walking; said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

graduated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of graduate.
• adj. (obsolete) In steps.
• adj. Having a university degree; having completed training.
• adj. Marked with graduations.
• adj. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
• adj. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
• adj. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

inclined

• adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
• adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

piecemeal

• adj. Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
• adv. Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
• adv. Into pieces or parts.
• v. (transitive) To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
• n. A fragment; a scrap.

sloping

• adj. Having a slope.
• v. present participle of slope.
• n. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

step-by-step

• adj. In detail, describing each step precisely and in order.

stepwise

• adj. One (small) step or stage at a time; gradual; piecemeal.
• adv. One step or stage at a time; step by step.