forte

Meaning

Noun

1. A strength or talent.
2. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

Adj

Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

Adv

Loudly.

Synonyms

strong point

loudly

loud

talent

specialty

long suit

hard

strength

flair

strongly

merit

metier

mightily

aptitude

strong suit

gift

🎁

knack

speciality

fortissimo

mightiness

odds

out loud

overbalance

powerful

powerfully

predominance

predomination

preeminence

preponderance

pride

prosperity

raucously

roughly

strenuously

sturdily

superbness

superiority

supremacy

supremeness

transcendence

transcendency

triumph

😤

virtue

tanginess

prevailingness

boomingly

acutely

predominancy

adroitness

aloud

ascendancy

base

bent

butt

client

customer

dominance

drastically

eminence

excellence

fast

foot

🦶

forceful

heavily

heel

keenly

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɔːteɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.