foremost

1. 1.

   prominently forward

   “he put his best foot foremost”

   Synonymsfirst
2. 2.

   before anything else

   “first we must consider the garter snake”

   Synonymsfirstfirstlyfirst of allfirst off

Other forms of foremost

comparative

foremoster·

superlative

foremostest·

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 foremost

What does foremost mean?

foremost means "ranking above all others". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foremost?

foremost has 2 syllables: fore-most. The stress falls on "fore". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹˌmoʊst/.

What is another word for foremost?

Close synonyms include first, world-class, frontmost, first, first. 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.

Is foremost a common word?

foremost 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 foremost?

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