Definition for Crescendo:

• ( mus.). ( Passage of music to be played) with gradually increasing volume( abbr. cres., crescotch); ( fig.) progress towards a climax.

Synonyms for Crescendo:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • crescendo.

• n.

  •
  • upswing,
  • rise,
  • surge,
  • upsurge,
  • jump,
  • leap,
  • explosion,
  • spurt.
  •
  • the point of no return,
  • milestone,
  • watershed,
  • the moment of truth,
  • crossroads,
  • highlight,
  • breaking point,
  • turning point.
  •
  • harmony,
  • mode,
  • lilt.
  •crescendo (noun)
  • increasing.
  •crest (noun)
  • fastigia,
  • fastigiums.
  •expansion (noun)
  • increase,
  • enlargement,
  • burgeoning,
  • lengthening,
  • stretching,
  • thickening,
  • inflation,
  • extension,
  • dilation,
  • growth,
  • increment,
  • engorgement,
  • expansion,
  • widening,
  • distension,
  • fattening,
  • swelling,
  • broadening,
  • amplification,
  • development,
  • augmentation,
  • magnification,
  • spreading.
  •increase to climax (noun)
  • escalation,
  • ascension,
  • zenith,
  • elevation,
  • critical mass,
  • peak,
  • climb,
  • building,
  • culmination,
  • apex,
  • summit,
  • intensification.
  •swell (noun)
  • up-rise,
  • up rise,
  • up-rises,
  • up rises.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Reverb,
  • descant,
  • overture,
  • dissonance,
  • sample,
  • middle eight,
  • accompaniment,
  • riff,
  • reprise,
  • leitmotif,
  • timbre,
  • part,
  • signature,
  • vocal,
  • drumroll,
  • prelude,
  • repeat,
  • excerpt,
  • cadence,
  • voluntary,
  • arpeggio,
  • counterpoint,
  • breakbeat,
  • loop,
  • theme,
  • phrase,
  • rest.
  •
  • lick,
  • motif,
  • flourish,
  • coda,
  • line,
  • movement,
  • suite,
  • discord,
  • drumming.
  •
  • chord,
  • tattoo.
  •
  • toot,
  • music,
  • trill,
  • rhythm.
  •
  • stress.
  •
  • tone.
  •
  • strain.
  •
  • sound.
  •
  • roll.
  •Other relevant words:
  • pizzicato,
  • piano,
  • andantino,
  • larghissimo,
  • Snowballing,
  • accrescendo,
  • accumulation,
  • edema,
  • aggrandize,
  • highest point,
  • get ahead,
  • ritenuto,
  • blow up,
  • accrue,
  • breed,
  • crisis,
  • blast,
  • largo,
  • build up,
  • balloon,
  • build,
  • expand,
  • larghetto,
  • sonorousness,
  • prestissimo,
  • multiplication,
  • inflate,
  • noontime,
  • legato,
  • thunder,
  • spread,
  • aggrandise,
  • appassionato,
  • intensity,
  • aggrandizement,
  • brow,
  • scherzo,
  • flood,
  • spiccato,
  • Bloating,
  • rarefy,
  • rallentando,
  • appreciation,
  • sublimation,
  • abbandono,
  • stretch,
  • eyeshade,
  • meridian,
  • superlative,
  • din,
  • allegretto,
  • accumulate,
  • hike up,
  • flower,
  • Tremolando,
  • bill,
  • hike,
  • proliferation,
  • gush,
  • appassionatamente,
  • point,
  • upturn,
  • grow,
  • extend,
  • Amoroso,
  • flare,
  • high point,
  • tumefy,
  • fanning out,
  • flush,
  • adagio,
  • raise,
  • awake the dead,
  • mounting,
  • pitch,
  • upping,
  • Trillando,
  • strengthen,
  • ballooning,
  • ascent,
  • fortissimo,
  • loudness,
  • blast the ear,
  • stun,
  • peal,
  • access,
  • crash,
  • apogee,
  • dilate,
  • dispersion,
  • develop,
  • on the increase,
  • resound,
  • rattle the windows,
  • Sufflate,
  • allegro,
  • split the ears,
  • boom,
  • sum,
  • appreciate,
  • enlarge,
  • conclusion,
  • deafen,
  • head,
  • vizor,
  • Greaten,
  • productiveness,
  • puff,
  • fullness,
  • deployment,
  • pump,
  • heyday,
  • Hiking,
  • accretion,
  • Brillante,
  • ring,
  • Culmen,
  • wax,
  • tumescence,
  • boost,
  • gain,
  • adjunct,
  • Stretto,
  • prime,
  • intensify,
  • ritardando,
  • top,
  • Capriccioso,
  • snowball,
  • add to,
  • gain strength,
  • andante,
  • puff up,
  • adagietto,
  • dolce,
  • Parlando,
  • bulk,
  • splay,
  • Ampliation,
  • raising,
  • pianissimo,
  • huff,
  • shoot up,
  • visor,
  • magnify,
  • extremum,
  • agilmente,
  • Scherzando,
  • multiply,
  • sotto voce,
  • Leggiero,
  • volume,
  • forte,
  • waxing,
  • distend,
  • accruement,
  • advance,
  • buildup,
  • amplify,
  • bulk out,
  • sonority,
  • Affettuoso,
  • vertex,
  • bloom,
  • Agitato,
  • proliferate,
  • efflorescence,
  • acme,
  • diminuendo,
  • augment,
  • bloat,
  • uptrend,
  • cusp,
  • pump up,
  • go up,
  • broaden,
  • decrescendo,
  • con amore,
  • crown,
  • mount,
  • staccato,
  • presto,
  • fill out,
  • culminating point,
  • accrual,
  • widen,
  • rend the air,
  • addition,
  • sordo,
  • capstone,
  • accession,
  • blossom,
  • Morendo,
  • amabile.

Antonyms for Crescendo:

• n.

  • increase to climax
    decline, base, nadir, bottom.
  • Other antonyms:
    rock bottom, decreasing, minimum, abyss, foot.

• v.

  • change
    decrescendo.

Crescendo Sentence Examples:

• Barbara was still a hundred yards from the shore when she heard the crescendo and dying boom of the gong floating out from the villa.

• In calm elation and tired expectancy we strained our eyes through the slow crescendo of the day's birth.

Homophones for Crescendo:

• characinidae, church mode, coruscant, carcinoid, crosswind, croissant, circinate, corrigenda, charge account, crescentia, coregonidae, coarsened, crescent, charge unit.

Hypernym for Crescendo:

• n.

  • attribute
    swell.

Hyponym for Crescendo:

• n.

  • attribute
    intensity, volume, loudness.

• v.

  • change
    increase.