- Continuous - Gentle (slope) - Happening slowly - Little by little, guard reformed Capone - Slow and steady - Unhurried - Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step,
as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly
progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual
decline.
- A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank;
especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered
way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).