pianissimo

Other forms of pianissimo

plural

pianissimoes·

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 pianissimo

What does pianissimo mean?

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

How many syllables are in pianissimo?

pianissimo has 5 syllables: pi-a-nis-si-mo. The stress falls on "nis".

What is another word for pianissimo?

Close synonyms include piano, very softly. 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 pianissimo?

The recorded antonyms are fortissimo.

Is pianissimo a common word?

pianissimo 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.