frontward

or front·wards

[ fruhnt-werd ]

/ ˈfrʌnt wərd /

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adverb

in a direction toward the front.

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Origin of frontward

First recorded in 1545–55; front + -ward

Words nearby frontward

front runner, frontrunning, frontstall, front up, front walkover, frontward, frontwards, front-wheel drive, frore, frosh, frost

How to use frontward in a sentence

It reported a bullet entering the right side of his head and exiting the left side after being shot from a “slightly frontward” direction.
Cops Say He Killed Himself During a Traffic Stop. His Family Says It’s Murder.|Andrew Boryga|May 28, 2021|The Daily Beast
This was riding frontward with the guns—this was rolling and rumbling on through the night up toward the glare and glamour of war.
"And they thought we wouldn't fight"|Floyd Gibbons
On the broad, paved highway from Paris to Meaux, my car passed miles and miles of loaded motor trucks bound frontward.
"And they thought we wouldn't fight"|Floyd Gibbons
And what he says about the pruriently titillating convexities, whether frontward or hindward, suggests a little prudery.
The Book of Khalid|Ameen Rihani

A back rest would throw one forward in a frontward lurch, and give no support in case of a backward one.
Sand Doom|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Over and over he went, sometimes backward and sometimes frontward, and sometimes sideways.
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures|Howard R. Garis