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ますます
Meanings
Adverb
Usually written in kana
1. increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
Alt. forms
ますます
93%
益ます々ます
6%
増ます々ます
益ますます
益ます益ます
増ます増ます
増ます増ます
Pitch accent
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Used in: 3838
Composed of
to increase; to grow
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
the busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better
the busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better
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Examples (63 in total)
The sky grew darker and darker.
The story got more and more interesting.
He became more and more famous.
Our city is getting bigger and bigger.
We respected him all the more.
It is getting warmer and warmer.
The weather was getting worse and worse.
I have less and less time for reading.
The crowd is growing larger and larger.
He has become taller and taller.
The weather was going from bad to worse.
The more I think about it, the less I like it.
His hair got thinner and thinner.
The game got more and more exciting.
That made the problem all the more complicated.
I love Ann all the more because she is shy.
She seems to get fatter and fatter.
More and more people offered to help.
Now we see more and more foreigners.
Hot, dry areas will become hotter and drier.
The rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
The noise is getting louder and louder.
More and more married couples share household chores.
The more people have, the more they want.
His story will be more and more interesting.
As she grew older, she became more beautiful.
The higher we climb, the colder it becomes.
The two sisters became more and more famous.
Our world is getting smaller and smaller every year.
External pressure grows ever more intense.
I hoped things would get better, but as it is, they are getting worse.
More and more people are moving to urban areas.
It is often said that the world is becoming smaller and smaller.
As he grew excited, he spoke more and more rapidly.
Divorce is becoming more common nowadays.
I got more and more bored as the speech went on.
His tone became more and more fervent.
The gap between rich and poor is getting wider.
More and more couples go on honeymoon trips abroad.
Tom is spending more and more time in Boston.
As he gets older, he's getting more and more stubborn.
More and more doctors have begun to use the new medicine.
I said nothing, which made him all the more angry.
When summer is over, the days grow shorter and shorter.
The more she talked, the more bored I got.
The higher up we went, the colder it became.
The older he grew, the more attractive he became.
As we go up higher, the air becomes thinner.
Today more and more people begin to use computers.
In recent years electronic computers have become increasingly important.
The conflict between blacks and whites in the city became worse.
The more I studied psychology, the more interesting I found it.
The number of students who use their holidays to travel abroad is increasing.
We tend to use more and more electric appliances in the home.
Japan is expected to play a greater role in international society.
An aging population will require more spending on health care.
More and more people are becoming aware of the dangers of smoking.
As time went on, people grew more and more concerned about the matter.
With the development of supersonic jet planes, the world is becoming smaller and smaller.
Because of modern communication and transportation systems, the world is getting smaller.
The older we grow, the poorer our memory becomes.
She became more and more beautiful as she grew older.
The older you grow, the more you tend to adhere to fixed ideas.