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Adjective adagio has 1 sense

adagio - (of tempo) leisurely
Antonym: fast (indirect, via slow)

Adverbial adagio has 1 sense

adagio - slowly; "here you must play adagio"
Derived from adjective adagio₁

Noun adagio has 2 senses

adagio - (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully); "they played the adagio too quickly"
--₁ is a kind of musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music; passage, musical passage
adagio - a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
--₂ is a kind of dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
--₂ is a part of pas de deux, duet