- 益々
- ますます【益々】more and more; still [even] more; increasingly; 〔減る場合〕 still less.
●ますますたくさん in increasing numbers
・ますます烈(はげ)しく with increasing severity
・ますます解せないのは what is still more incomprehensible; what I fail even more to understand
・ますます勉強に励む work harder [more diligently]
・ますます悪くなる go from bad to worse; be worse than ever
・ますます勇気がなくなる become less courageous
・ますます広がるインターネットの可能性 the increasing [growing] potential of the Internet.
●両国間の紛争はますます混乱の度を深めている. The conflict between the countries is becoming increasingly complex.
・年を取るにつれ, ますます出不精になった. The older I get, the more I've become a stay-at-home.
・それを聞いてますます行くのがいやになった[ますます行きたくなった]. Hearing it, I became the less [all the more] inclined to go.
・時下ますますご清勝のこととお慶び申しあげます. I hope you are keeping well. | I hope this letter finds you well.
・先生は今年 90 になられるが, 老いてますますお盛んである. The professor will soon be ninety, but the older he gets, the more energetic he becomes.
・ますますもって怪しからん! That makes things all the worse! | That's all the more terrible!
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.