anteroposterior
anteroposterior adjective: anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
Adjective
anteroposterior (not comparable)
- Anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
- anteroposterior movement
- […] also effects the fore-aft (anteroposterior) wing motions known as promotion and remotion.2002, Robert Dudley, The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution, →ISBN, page 43
- Of or pertaining to the relation between anterior and posterior.
- the anteroposterior axis
anteroposterior meaning in Tamil
anteroposterior in Tamil
- முன்பின்னாக
Synonyms of anteroposterior
Forms of anteroposterior
| alternative form | antero-posterior |
|---|
Origin of anteroposterior
From antero- + posterior.
Words formed from anteroposterior
- anteroposteriorly
- anteroposteriority
- anteroposterior axis
- midanteroposterior
Words that rhyme with anteroposterior
- superior
- inferior
- anterior
- ulterior
- exterior
- interior
- posterior
- dorsoposterior
- posteroanterior
- superoinferior
- anteroinferior
- anterosuperior
41 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- apicoposterior
- centroanterior
- centroposterior
- citerior
- distoanterior
- distoposterior
- dorsoanterior
- frontoposterior
- Homo Superior
- inferoanterior
- inferoposterior
- lateroanterior
- lateroinferior
- lateroposterior
- laterosuperior
- medioposterior
- mediosuperior
- mentoanterior
- mentoposterior
- mesioposterior
- mesoanterior
- midanterior
- midposterior
- noninferior
- nonposterior
- nonsuperior
- occipitoanterior
- occipitoposterior
- posteroinferior
- posterosuperior
- proximoposterior
- sacroanterior
- sacroposterior
- sinistroposterior
- subanterior
- subposterior
- superoanterior
- superoposterior
- temporosuperior
- ventroanterior
- ventroposterior
Questions about anteroposterior
- What does anteroposterior mean?
- Anteroposterior means anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
- What is anteroposterior in Tamil?
- Anteroposterior in Tamil is முன்பின்னாக. See Anteroposterior meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is anteroposterior?
- Anteroposterior is an adjective.
Words near anteroposterior in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: anteroposterior (page history and authors); anteroposterior (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “anteroposterior.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/anteroposterior. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.