- A gradual can also refer to a book collecting all the musical items of the Mass. The official such book for the Roman Rite is the Roman Gradual (Graduale Romanum).
- gradual (comparative more gradual, superlative most gradual). Proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees.
- Gradual definition: taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little. See examples of GRADUAL used in a sentence.
- 1.5 Antonyms for Gradual. 1.6 Thesaurus. 1.7 Pronunciation. ... Gradual (comparative more Gradual, superlative most Gradual).
- The term can be used to describe a process, such as a gradual increase in temperature, or an outcome, like gradual improvement in one's health.
- Meaning of Gradual in English. ... 1. gradual. (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass.
- In the Mass of Paul VI the gradual corresponds to the Responsorial Psalm. There is the option to replace this psalm with the gradual, but its use is extremely rare.
- Gradual — Grad u*al, n. [LL. graduale a gradual (in sense 1), fr. L. gradus step: cf. F. graduel. See {Grade}, and cf. {Grail} a gradual.]
- "a gradual method of action," 1832, in abolitionist literature, as a disparaging term (opposed to immediatism), from gradual + -ism.