over time
As years pass
Over time means gradually, across an extended period rather than all at once.
The phrase emphasizes cumulative change or development: Over time, her skills improved, The building deteriorated over time.
It's written as two words when used as an adverb; the single word overtime refers to extra work hours or extended play in sports.
- graduallyIn slow stages
- durationLength of existence
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- progressionSequential forward movement
- accumulationCollected mass over time
in the long run · down the road · little by little · bit by bit · day by day · slow and steady · continuity · steadily · persistence · epochs · transformation · longevity · unfolding · interval · hindsight · sequence · evolution · retrospection
- gradual phrasesbit by bit, little by little, step by step, one by one, piece by piece
- time expressionsnow, today, soon, tomorrow, later
- time phrasesall day, all night, for now, right now, just now
over timeinstantly
Without any pause
immediately · instantaneously · all at once · suddenly · in an instant
over timeconstantly
At all times
unchangingly · permanently · always · perpetually · invariably