frontward adv 1: at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) [syn: {forward}, {forwards}, {frontward}, {frontwards}, {forrad}, {forrard}] [ant: {back}, {backward}, {backwards}, {rearward}, {rearwards}]