MEANING
At a very loud musical dynamic.
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- play fortissimo
- fortissimo chord
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The orchestra played fortissimo as the doors opened.
A fortissimo chord ended the argument before either speaker replied.
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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Invariable musical direction; do not invent comparative, plural, or tense forms. Related noun forms, where applicable, are noted by sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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