Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of gradual semantics of borrowings in the modern Russian language system. The researcher focuses on gradual meaning of borrowings depending on lexical-semantic groups. The aim of this research is to describe lexical-semantic peculiarities of borrowings with gradual semantics in the modern Russian language system. To achieve the research targets, the author believes it is necessary to do the following: to analyze theoretical concepts about graduality and gradual semantics; to give a lexical-semantic classification of borrowed words with gradual semantics. In his research Chan has applied the following research methods: linguistic description, classification, directional sampling, and component analysis. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first time in the academic literature Chan carries out special and in-depth research of borrowed words with gradual semantics from the lexical-semantic point of view. Besides other factors, the novelty of the research is also caused by the author's choice of examples for analysis, neologisms of foreign origin used at the turn of late XX - early XXI centuries.