pedal point

1. 1.

   a sustained bass note

   Synonymspedal

   Broadernote

Questions about pedal point

What does pedal point mean?

pedal point means "a sustained bass note".

What is another word for pedal point?

Close synonyms include pedal. 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.

Is pedal point a common word?

pedal point 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.