anterior

Other forms of anterior

plural

anteriors·

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 anterior

What does anterior mean?

anterior means "of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anterior?

anterior has 4 syllables: an-ter-i-or. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /ænˈtɪɹiɚ/.

What is another word for anterior?

Close synonyms include prior, front tooth. 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 anterior?

The recorded antonyms are posterior.

Is anterior a common word?

anterior is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anterior?

2 words rhyme with anterior. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.