'Crescendo' definitions:
Definition of 'crescendo'
From: WordNet
adjective
Gradually increasing in volume
noun
(music) a gradual increase in loudness
verb
Grow louder; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: decrescendo]
Definition of 'Crescendo'
From: GCIDE
- Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\ (kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?), a. & adv. [It., from crescere to increase. See Crescent.] (Mus.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crescendo'
From: GCIDE
- Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\, n. (Mus.) (a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. (b) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'crescendo'
From: GCIDE
- increasing \increasing\ adj.
- 1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: {accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] decreasing [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
- Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'crescendo'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- access,
- accession,
- accrescendo,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accrue,
- accruement,
- accumulate,
- accumulation,
- acme,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- add to,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- advance,
- affettuoso,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- andante,
- andantino,
- apex,
- apogee,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- appreciate,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- augment,
- augmentation,
- awake the dead,
- balloon,
- ballooning,
- blast,
- blast the ear,
- bloat,
- bloating,
- blow up,
- boom,
- boost,
- breed,
- brillante,
- broaden,
- broadening,
- build,
- build up,
- buildup,
- bulk,
- bulk out,
- capriccioso,
- capstone,
- climax,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- crash,
- crest,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- deafen,
- decrescendo,
- deployment,
- develop,
- development,
- dilate,
- diminuendo,
- din,
- dispersion,
- distend,
- dolce,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlarge,
- enlargement,
- expand,
- expansion,
- extend,
- extension,
- fanning out,
- fill out,
- fill the air,
- flare,
- flood,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- fullness,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- get ahead,
- go up,
- greaten,
- greatening,
- grow,
- growth,
- gush,
- hike,
- hike up,
- hiking,
- huff,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflate,
- inflation,
- intensify,
- intensity,
- jump,
- lamentabile,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- leap,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- loudishness,
- loudness,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- marcando,
- meridian,
- morendo,
- mount,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- multiply,
- parlando,
- peak,
- peal,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- productiveness,
- proliferate,
- proliferation,
- puff,
- puff up,
- pump,
- pump up,
- raise,
- raising,
- rallentando,
- rarefy,
- rattle the windows,
- rend the air,
- rend the ears,
- resound,
- ring,
- rise,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- rock the sky,
- run up,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- shoot up,
- snowball,
- snowballing,
- sonority,
- sonorousness,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- splay,
- split the eardrums,
- split the ears,
- spread,
- spreading,
- staccato,
- startle the echoes,
- strengthen,
- stretch,
- stretto,
- stun,
- sufflate,
- surge,
- surge of sound,
- swell,
- swelling,
- thunder,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- tumefy,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- volume,
- wax,
- waxing,
- widen,
- widening