frontal

1. 1.

   belonging to the front part

   “a frontal appendage”

   Similaranterior
2. 2.

   of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air

   “frontal rainfall”

   meteorology

3. 3.

   meeting front to front

   “a frontal attack”

   “a head-on collision”

   Synonymshead-on

   Similarfront
4. 4.

   of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone

   “the frontal lobes”

   Similaranterior

1. 1.

   an adornment worn on the forehead

   Synonymsfrontlet

   Broaderadornment
2. 2.

   a drapery that covers the front of an altar

   Broadercurtain
3. 3.

   the face or front of a building

   Synonymsfacadefrontage

   Broaderfront

   Narrowerfrontispiece

Other forms of frontal

plural

frontals·

comparative

frontaller·

superlative

frontallest·

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 frontal

What does frontal mean?

frontal means "belonging to the front part". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frontal?

frontal has 2 syllables: fron-tal. The stress falls on "fron". In IPA it is /ˈfɹʌntəl/.

What is another word for frontal?

Close synonyms include head-on, frontlet, facade, frontage. 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 frontal a common word?

frontal 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 frontal?

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