decrescendo

1. 1.

   (music) gradually decreasing in volume

   Synonymsdiminuendo

   Similardecreasing

   music

Other forms of decrescendo

plural

decrescendoes·

past tense

decrescendoed·

present participle

decrescendoing·

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 decrescendo

What does decrescendo mean?

decrescendo means "(music) a gradual decrease in loudness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decrescendo?

decrescendo has 4 syllables: de-cre-scen-do. The stress falls on "cre".

What is another word for decrescendo?

Close synonyms include diminuendo, diminuendo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of decrescendo?

The recorded antonyms are crescendo.

Is decrescendo a common word?

decrescendo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.