Definitions for adagio

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adagio a·da·gio

Spelling: [uh-dah-joh, -zhee-oh; Italian ah-dah-jaw]

IPA: /əˈdɑ dʒoʊ, -ʒiˌoʊ; Italian ɑˈdɑ dʒɔ/

Adagio is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in adagio (aadgio).

Definitions for adagio

noun

1. Music. an adagio movement or piece.
2. Dance. a sequence of well-controlled, graceful movements performed as a display of skill. a duet by a man and a woman or mixed trio emphasizing difficult technical feats. (especially in ballet) a love-duet sequence in a pas de deux.

adverb

1. Music. in a leisurely manner; slowly.

adjective

1. Music. slow.

Origin of adagio

1740-50; Italian, for ad agio at ease; agio Old Provençal ais or Old French aise (see ease)

Examples for adagio

Only the adagio and Rondo of his Concerto had a decided success.

Tempo: adagio lamentoso, with occasionally a rise to andante maesto.

Sinking quickly into the slumber which always overtakes him during the adagio.

Schubert has published the “adagio Religioso,” which will be sent you at Paris.

If I were a musician I would take it as the subject for the adagio in a Wesleyan symphony.

His compositions, also, 240 showed superior delicacy in the adagio.

The first movement and the adagio, above all, are of incomparable beauty.

The incoherence of the Journal suddenly glides into an adagio.

My name is Miller, at your service for an adagio—but, as to ladybirds, I cannot serve you.

They skipped not in answer to the adagio movement in the May-day Symphony.