steep, sudden

rapid, slow, slight, steady, accelerated, drastic, irreversible, precipitous, inexorable, modest, dramatic, quickening, abrupt, swift, methodical, perceptible, inevitable, orderly, systematic, incremental, noticeable, downward, cyclical, glacial, sudden, significant, precipitious, sequential, deliberate, substantial, partial, cautious, flattish, cyclic, sharp, continual, exponential decay, eventual, steep, upward, mild, definite, continuous, vigorous, subtle, consequent, hasty, punctuated equilibrium, paradigm shift, moderate, piecemeal, meteoric, iterative, transitory, evolutional, radical, gentle, fitful, stabilizing, muted, smooth, equilibrating, concomitant, imperceptible, decelerated, contractive, crawling peg, accommodative, aggregative, incipient, precipitate, painful, saccadic, forcible, grudging, linear, pragmatic, martensitic, exponential, regulative, reversible, logical, seasonable, wavelike, transitionary, jerkier, glide path, consociational, wrenching, sustained, hydrologic cycle, tentative, unilateral, remarkable, widespread, reverse, logarithmic, undramatic, stable, painless, prolonged, isostatic, speedy, progressive, slower, marked, simultaneous, facilitate

., advancement, alluvion, anamorphic, anamorphism, anamorphosis, aphesis, bit by bit, bukharin, chronic glaucoma, cjd, climb, climb up, continental drift, convalescence, crescendo, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, decay, declination, decline, decrescendo, degenerative, desertification, dieback, diminuendo, dissolve, drain, drift, ebb, ebbing, ecological succession, education, emergence, erosion, exopterygota, fabianism, fabian society, fadeout, flared, flaring, flowage, gentleness, gently, go up, graduality, gradually, gradualness, growth, hemimetabola, jakob-creutzfeldt disease, loss, menshevik, mix, mixture, mount, nikolai ivanovich bukharin, open-angle glaucoma, outgrowth, process, progress, reaction turbine, receding, recovery, recuperation, relaxation, settling, slack, social democracy, social democratic party, step by step, subclass exopterygota, subsidence, subsiding, succession, wane, waning, waxing

antiphon, antiphony

bit-by-bit, easy, gradational, gradatory, graduated, in small stages, sloping, step-by-step, stepwise