ますます
Meanings
Adverb
1. increasingly; more and more (Usually kana)
2. decreasingly; less and less (Usually kana, when declining)
Other spellings
益々益
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
ますます
Used in vocabulary
Examples134
われわれ
We respected him all the more.
情勢
The situation went from bad to worse.
人
The more people have, the more they want.
持てば
The more one has, the more one wants.
聞けば
The more I hear, the more interesting it becomes.
彼
He became more and more famous.