very softly

1. 1.

   a direction in music; to be played very softly

   Synonymspianissimo

Questions about very softly

What does very softly mean?

very softly means "a direction in music; to be played very softly".

What is another word for very softly?

Close synonyms include pianissimo. 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 very softly a common word?

very softly 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.