foreground

Other forms of foreground

plural

foregrounds·

past tense

foregrounded·

present participle

foregrounding·

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 foreground

What does foreground mean?

foreground means "the part of a scene that is near the viewer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foreground?

foreground has 2 syllables: fore-ground. The stress falls on "fore". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹˌɡɹaʊnd/.

What is another word for foreground?

Close synonyms include highlight, spotlight, play up. 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 foreground?

The recorded antonyms are background.

Is foreground a common word?

foreground is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 foreground?

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