piano

1. 1.

   (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone

   “the piano passages in the composition”

   Synonymssoft

   Antonymsforte

   Similarpianissimopianissimo assai

1. 1.

   used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

   Synonymssoftly

   Antonymsforte

Other forms of piano

plural

pianoes·

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 piano

What does piano mean?

piano means "a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piano?

piano has 3 syllables: pi-an-o. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /piˈænoʊ/.

What is another word for piano?

Close synonyms include pianoforte, forte-piano, pianissimo, soft, 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 piano?

The recorded antonyms are forte, forte.

Is piano a common word?

piano is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 piano?

1 word rhymes with piano. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.