'Decrescendo' definitions:
Definition of 'decrescendo'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Gradually decreasing in volume [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo]
noun
(music) a gradual decrease in loudness [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo]
verb
Grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" [ant: crescendo]
Definition of 'Decrescendo'
From: GCIDE
- Decrescendo \De`cres*cen"do\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'decrescendo'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- barely audible,
- brillante,
- capriccioso,
- catabasis,
- collapse,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- contractive,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decreasingly,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- dim,
- diminishing,
- diminishingly,
- diminuendo,
- dimness,
- distant,
- dive,
- dolce,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- ever less,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- faintness,
- fall,
- feeble,
- feebleness,
- flatness,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- gentle,
- gentleness,
- half-heard,
- indistinct,
- indistinctness,
- lamentabile,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- less,
- less and less,
- lessening,
- low,
- lowness,
- marcando,
- morendo,
- murmured,
- on the wane,
- parlando,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- plunge,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rallentando,
- reductive,
- remission,
- retreat,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- scarcely heard,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- softness,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- subaudibility,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- subduedness,
- subsidence,
- subsiding,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- unclear,
- unclearness,
- wane,
- waning,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- weakness,
- whispered