adagio

1. 1.

   slowly

   “here you must play adagio”

   music

Other forms of adagio

plural

adagios·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adagio

What does adagio mean?

adagio means "(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adagio?

adagio has 4 syllables: a-da-gi-o. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /əˈdɑʒiˌoʊ/.

Is adagio a common word?

adagio is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adagio?

35 words rhyme with adagio. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.