Meanings
- not comparableentertainmentTo be played rather fast and lively.
plural allegrettos
- entertainmentA movement in this time.
1 more example
It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world.
1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of tempo) faster than allegro
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Italianallegretto
- Englishallegretto
Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.
More words from Italian
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
Chinese Mandarin 小快板
- 小快板 (xiǎokuàibǎn)musical direction
Estonian allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
French allégretto, allégretto
- allégrettomusical direction
- allégrettoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
German allegretto, Allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
- Allegrettoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
Greek αλεγκρέτο
- αλεγκρέτο (alegkréto)musical direction
Norwegian allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
Polish allegretto, allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
- allegrettoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
Portuguese alegreto, alegreto
- alegretomusical direction
- alegretoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
Romanian allegretto, allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
- allegrettoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
Russian аллегре́тто, аллегре́тто
- аллегре́тто (allegrétto)musical direction
- аллегре́тто (allegrétto)a movement that is to be played fast and lively
Swedish allegretto, allegretto
- allegrettomusical direction
- allegrettoa movement that is to be played fast and lively
Cite this entry
allegretto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allegretto
“allegretto.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allegretto. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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