Adagio and Slow

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Adagio adjective - (of tempo) leisurely.

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Slow and adagio are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slow" instead an adjective "Adagio".

Slow adjective - At a slow tempo.

Usage example: the band played a slow waltz

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Adagio and slow are semantically related. You can use "Adagio" instead an adjective "Slow".

Nearby Words: slowness, slowed, slowly, slowing, slowdown

Standard Snippet: Adagio for Strings, played over a slow-motion reaction to discovering that they're out of tea.

Source: Series / That Mitchell and Webb Look
In Season 9 of How I Met Your Mother, Barber's Adagio for Strings plays when Marshall nearly delivers the seventh slap onto Barney, in slow motion.

Source: Playing the Heart Strings
The movie opens with slow, desolate shots of Alien's lifeboat drifting through space, accompanied by music from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite; the same adagio is used for the lonely establishing shots of the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Source: Film / Aliens

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