Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation
Definition: Sforzato
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.[Websters] 2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb sforzatoly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (sforzatoly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective sforzato.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Sforzato" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references) |
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| Position | Synonyms (sorted by strength) | |
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sforzando, forzando. | |
| Source: Eve, based on meta analysis. | Top | |
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