adagio

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
adagio
    adv 1: slowly; "here you must play adagio"
    adj 1: (of tempo) leisurely
    n 1: (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and
         gracefully); "they played the adagio too quickly"
    2: a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and
       strength by the dancers
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adagio \A*da"gio\, a. & adv. [It. adagio; ad (L. ad) at + agio
   convenience, leisure, ease. See {Agio}.] (Mus.)
   Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated,
   adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adagio \A*da"gio\, n.
   A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an
   adagio of Haydn.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "adagio":
      a poco, adagietto, allargando, allegretto, allegro, andante,
      andantino, calando, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, forte,
      fortissimo, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, lento, marcando,
      pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando,
      ritardando, ritenuto, scherzando, scherzo, spiccato, staccato,
      stretto
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