anteriorly

1. 1.

   in an anterior direction

Questions about anteriorly

What does anteriorly mean?

anteriorly means "in an anterior direction".

How many syllables are in anteriorly?

anteriorly has 5 syllables and divides as an-te-ri-or-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is anteriorly a common word?

anteriorly 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.