Crossword-Solution: STACCATO 8 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Staccato a. Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to
perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed
manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents
written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to
be less distinct and emphatic.
Staccato a. Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.

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STACCATO anagram TOCCATAS

We have 49 clues for the answer “STACCATO”

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Musically detached 1 answer
Disconnected, as notes 1 answer
Disconnected, musically 1 answer
How dotted notes should be played 1 answer
In music, abrupt. 1 answer
In rapid-fire succession 1 answer
Legato's opposite 1 answer
Like dotted musical notes 1 answer
Like machine gun fire 1 answer
Like music with short, sharp notes 1 answer
Marked by short, clear-cut notes: Mus. 1 answer
Meaning of a dot above a note 1 answer
Musically choppy 1 answer
Disconnected, as in music 1 answer
Musically disconnected 1 answer
Musically disjointed 1 answer
Not at all continuous 1 answer
Opposite of legato 1 answer
Rapid-fire, musically 1 answer
Short disconnected notes, in music 1 answer
Unsustained, in music 1 answer
What a dot indicates on a musical score 1 answer
With sharply detached notes 1 answer
Toccatas (anag) – the opposite of flowing 1 answer
Sharply detached (music) 1 answer
Detached, on a score 1 answer
"Choppy" musical direction 1 answer
A dot indicates it 1 answer
Abruptly disconnected, in music 1 answer
Broken off, musically 1 answer
Choppy, as in "Chopsticks" 1 answer
Choppy, in music 1 answer
Clipped, in music 1 answer
Clipped, musically 1 answer
Cut short in performing 1 answer
Detached, musically 1 answer
Choppy, to Chopin 1 answer
RAPID fire 2 answers
Rapid-fire 3 answers
Score direction 7 answers
CHOPPY 9 answers
A CONTINUOUS CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION WITHOUT AN INTERRUPTION 10 answers
DETACHED IN MUSIC 10 answers
Clipped 15 answers
Jerking 34 answers
Musical direction 34 answers
disjointed 58 answers
Abrupt 77 answers
Detached 83 answers
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Sentences with STACCATO (5)

The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Flamel, for a wonder, was not there; but Dresham and young Hartly, grouped about the tea-table, were receiving with resonant mirth a narrative delivered in the fluttered staccato that made Mrs.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995
The engine burst into staccato thunder, sobered down; the wheels began to move both Cora and Corliss were laughing and there was an air of triumph about them--Cora's veil streamed and fluttered: and in a flash they were gone.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
The birds were improvising a miniature symphony in the birches at the end of the garden; the song-thrush warbled with a sweet melancholy his long-drawn contralto notes; the lark, like a prima donna, hovering conspicuously in mid air, poured forth her joyous soprano solo; and the robin, quite unmindful of the tempo, filled out the pauses with his thoughtless staccato chirp.
Tales From Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen 1995
Whenever she reached this stage in her reflexions she lifted a furtive glance to the clock, whose loud staccato tick was becoming a part of her inmost being.
Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 2008

Quotes with STACCATO (3)

Samson’s grace and surefootedness at breakneck paces was the closest Roxleigh had ever come to some semblance of peace in his life. His head was never clearer, his nerves were never calmer, and his mind was never more unbound than when he rode Samson. He listened to the horse’s steady breathing, the exertion of his exhalations, and the steady beat of his hooves, punctuated by the swift silence of the jumps and the exclamation of the landing, like a staccato symphony. His mind…
Jenn LeBlanc
Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It’s truth in an otherwise dishonest world.
Moryah DeMott Timeless
Jimi on the box, thirty stories up, everything immediate, yet distanced. Jimi's chords locked in aerial dogfights, gliding, riding, sliding, hiding, belligerent bursts, hallucinogenic, a head-warping face-wiping mind melt, chords live dive bombers screaming in for the kill, scintillating, serrated chords shot through with arc-light shrieks of staccato mayhem, as immediate and horrific as the firefight racketing away this very second below our red and puffy eyes; chords that h…
Roger Steffens
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 39 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).