Front and Posterior

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Front adjective - Being at or in the part of something opposite the back part.

Usage example: visitors use the front door, but family knows to go around to the side entrance

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Posterior is an antonym for front.

Nearby Words: fronted, frontal, frontline, frontage, fronting

Posterior adjective - Being at or in the part of something opposite the front part.

Usage example: the chapel's posterior location in the church serves to make it a quiet retreat

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Front is an antonym for posterior in topics: rear, subsequent, behind of animate being.

Nearby Words: posteriority, posteriorly

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Posterior and Front. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/front/posterior

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