formost

Adjective

foremost (not comparable)

1. Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
   • She prankes not by hir mistresse side, she preases not to bée / The foremost of the companie, as when she erst was frée.1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   front, frontmost, forwardmost

   Antonyms:

   back, backmost, hindmost, rear, rearmost, rearwardmost

2. Coming before (all) others in time.
   • […] of both them, she / (By Pallas counsell) was to haue the grace / Of foremost greeting.c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 7, p. 102

   Synonyms:

   first

3. Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
   • The exhibition features works by the country’s foremost artists.

   Synonyms:

   greatest, leading, paramount, primary, principal, top

4. Closest to the bow.
   • I let fall the tiller, turned my back on them, and sat down on the foremost thwart.1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 10, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 133

   Antonyms:

   aftermost

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