frontward

1. 1.

   at or to or toward the front

   “he faced forward”

   “step forward”

   “she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine”

   Synonymsforwardforwardsfrontwardsforradforrard

   dialect

Questions about frontward

What does frontward mean?

frontward means "at or to or toward the front".

How many syllables are in frontward?

frontward has 2 syllables: fron-tward. The stress falls on "fron".

What is another word for frontward?

Close synonyms include forward, forwards, 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.

Is frontward a common word?

frontward 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.