frontest

Adjective

front (comparative further front or farther front, superlative furthest front or farthest front)

1. Located at or near the front.
   • The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.

   Synonyms:

   forward, first, lead, fore

2. (comparable) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
   • The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
3. Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
   • Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.1995, Ignacio Mas, Jesús Saá-Requejo, Using Financial Futures in Trading and Risk Management, World Bank Publications, page 11

   Synonyms:

   prompt

   Antonyms:

   back

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