percussive instrument

1. 1.

   a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another

   Synonymspercussion instrument

   Broadermusical instrument

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   Partsmallet

Questions about percussive instrument

What does percussive instrument mean?

percussive instrument means "a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another".

What is another word for percussive instrument?

Close synonyms include percussion instrument. 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 percussive instrument a common word?

percussive instrument 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.