fortissimo

1. 1.

   a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly

   Broaderpassage

1. 1.

   (chiefly a direction or description in music) very loud and strong

   Similarforte

1. 1.

   a direction in music; to be played very loudly

   Synonymsvery loudly

   Antonymspianissimo

Other forms of fortissimo

plural

fortissimoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fortissimo

What does fortissimo mean?

fortissimo means "a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fortissimo?

fortissimo has 4 syllables: for-tis-si-mo. The stress falls on "tis".

What is another word for fortissimo?

Close synonyms include very loudly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fortissimo?

The recorded antonyms are pianissimo.

Is fortissimo a common word?

fortissimo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.