forward

1. 1.

   at or near or directed toward the front

   “the forward section of the aircraft”

   “a forward plunge down the stairs”

   “forward motion”

   Antonymsbackward

   Similarguardantheadfirst
2. 2.

   used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty

   “a forward child badly in need of discipline”

   Antonymsbackward

   Similarbrashbumptiousoverfamiliarfreshassumptive
3. 3.

   of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle

   “in a forward gear”

   Antonymsreverse
4. 4.

   moving forward

   Synonymsadvancingforward-moving

   Similarprogressive

1. 1.

   the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey

   Broaderbasketball player

   NarrowerErving
2. 2.

   a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team

   Broaderposition

   Part ofbasketball team

1. 1.

   send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit

   “forward my mail”

   Synonymssend on

   Broadertransport

Other forms of forward

plural

forwards·

past tense

forwarded·

present participle

forwarding·

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 forward

What does forward mean?

forward means "at or to or toward the front". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forward?

forward has 2 syllables: for-ward. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹwɚd/.

What is another word for forward?

Close synonyms include forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard. 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 forward?

The recorded antonyms are backward, backward, backward, backward.

Is forward a common word?

forward is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 forward?

1 word rhymes with forward. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.