Difference between Andante and Slow

What is the difference between Andante and Slow?

Andante as an adjective is describing a passage having this mark. while Slow as an adjective is taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

Andante

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Describing a passage having this mark.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than allegretto. A passage having this mark.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Played at a moderately slow tempo.

Slow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone who is slow; a sluggard.A slow song.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Slowly (usually in combinations).

Example sentence: Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

We hope you now know whether to use Andante or Slow in your sentence.

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