Usually means: Slow tempo in music performance.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. adagio: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adagio: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adagio: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adagio: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adagio: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adagio, adagio: Wordnik
  7. adagio: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adagio: Wiktionary
  9. adagio: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adagio: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adagio: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adagio: Dictionary.com
  13. adagio: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Adagio (Lara Fabian song), Adagio (Solitude Aeturnus album), Adagio (Sweetbox album), Adagio (acrobatics), Adagio (ballet), Adagio (band), Adagio (circus skill), Adagio (film), Adagio (hotel), Adagio (music), Adagio: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adagio: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adagio: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adagio: Rhymezone
  18. Adagio: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adagio: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adagio: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. adagio: Free Dictionary
  22. adagio: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adagio: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adagio (disambiguation), adagio: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adagio: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
▸ noun:  (music) A passage having this mark.
▸ noun:  (dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
▸ adverb:  (music) Played rather slowly.
▸ adjective:  (music) Describing a passage having this mark.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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slow, adagietto, andante, lento, addolorato, allegro ma non troppo, cantabile, andantino, accompagnato, slow motion, more...

Types:
slow, leisurely, ponderous, sluggish, more...

Phrases:
adagio sostenuto, Adagio for Strings, Adagio in G minor, tempo slower than adagio, slower than adagio, more...

Adjectives:
short, beautiful, quasi, second, first, major, long, slowest, minor, introductory, grand

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    soft lavender,     muted teal,     gentle rose,     pale blue,     dusty mauve, more...


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Similar:
slow, adagietto, andante, lento, addolorato, allegro ma non troppo, cantabile, andantino, accompagnato, slow motion, more...

Types:
slow, leisurely, ponderous, sluggish, more...

Phrases:
adagio sostenuto, Adagio for Strings, Adagio in G minor, tempo slower than adagio, slower than adagio, more...

Adjectives:
short, beautiful, quasi, second, first, major, long, slowest, minor, introductory, grand

Colors:
    soft lavender,     muted teal,     gentle rose,     pale blue,     dusty mauve, more...



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