diminuendo

Meanings

Noun

  • A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
  • A passage having this mark
  • The gradual dying away of something.

Adverb

  • played in this style

Adjective

  • describing a passage having this mark

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Opposite words

Origin

  • Borrowed from Italian diminuendo

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