Diminuendo

Quick meaning: Diminuendo is a noun meaning (music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly.

Meaning

(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly.

More Meanings

1. (music) A passage having this mark
2. (figurative) The gradual dying away of something.
3. (music) played in this style
4. (music) describing a passage having this mark

Example Sentences

Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.

Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.

Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.

Word Forms

• diminuendos

Synonyms for diminuendo

Depending on context, synonyms include decrescendo, decreasing.

Antonyms for diminuendo

Common opposites include crescendo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decrescendo, decreasing, dolce, downdrift, damper, downness.

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