Definition for Diminuendo:

• di-min-[= u]- en'd[= o], adv. ( mus.) a direction to let the sound die away, marked thus [ Diminuendo symbol]. [ It.,-- L. diminuendus, fut. part. pass. of diminu[) e]re, dimin[= u]tum, to lessen.]

Synonyms for Diminuendo:

• n.

  •
  • andante,
  • bass clef,
  • allegro,
  • adagio,
  • con amore,
  • con brio,
  • ARR,
  • clef,
  • bar line,
  • bar.
  •decreasing (noun)
  • decreasing.
  •decrescendo (noun)
  • decrescendo.
  •diminishment (noun)
  • attenuation,
  • regression,
  • extenuation,
  • declination,
  • diminution,
  • depreciation.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • retrenchment,
  • Diminishment,
  • retrenchments.

Antonyms for Diminuendo:

• adv.

  • Other antonyms:
    increasing.

• n.

  • diminishment
    increase.

Diminuendo Sentence Examples:

• A diminuendo of the shuffling steps; then a cursing, frightened savage at one end of the rhododendrons, and we two stealing out at the other, hand in hand, and bent quite double, into the long neglected grass.

• Katherine sings softly, playing diminuendo.

Homophones for Diminuendo:

• dead hand, dominated, de-iodinate, danaid, dine out, diamond, denude, dead end, demented, donate, dimity, detonate, dementia, demimonde, diomedeidae, detent, deadened, diatomite, diamonte, denuded, dante, dent, donated, done with, downwind, detente, dmd, demand, day in day out, dimmed, dimwit, dynamite, down-and-out, danaidae, dominate, daunt, domed, denominate, dominant, demode, deaminate, denote, dim-witted, donut, diodontidae, dainty, dimout, dominion day, dinette, Detainment, dentate, demantoid, day in and day out, dint, damned, dead-end, de-ionate, dandy, denouement, dented, daunted, demote, doomed, diamante, denudate.