adagio
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)
they played the adagio too quickly
Types & categories
- musical composition hypernym
- musical passage hypernym
Related & opposite
- music domain topic
Sense 2 adjective
(of tempo) leisurely
Related & opposite
- slow similar to
Sense 3 adverb
slowly
here you must play adagio
Related & opposite
Sense 4 noun
a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
Types & categories
- dancing hypernym
Parts & wholes
- pas de deux part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical composition |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical passage |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | slow |
| 3 | derived from | Related & opposite | adagio |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | pas de deux |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | dancing |