Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pizzicato

1 sense of pizzicato

Sense 1
pizzicato -- (a note or passage that is played pizzicato)
       => music -- (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Antonyms of adj pizzicato

1 sense of pizzicato

Sense 1
pizzicato -- ((of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger)

INDIRECT (VIA plucked) -> bowed -- (of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow)

Similarity of adj pizzicato

1 sense of pizzicato

Sense 1
pizzicato -- ((of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger)
       => plucked (vs. bowed) -- (of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum)

Synonyms of adv pizzicato

1 sense of pizzicato

Sense 1
pizzicato -- (with a light plucking staccato sound)