Definitions for frontal

frontal fron·tal

Spelling: [fruhn-tl]
IPA: /ˈfrʌn tl/

Frontal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in frontal (aflnort).

Definitions for frontal

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical. a movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar.
  2. frontlet (def 1).
  3. Anatomy. any of several parts in the frontal region, especially the frontal bone.

adjective

  1. of, in, or at the front:
  2. Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the forehead or the frontal bone. coronal (def 4c).
  3. Meteorology. of or relating to the division between dissimilar air masses:
  4. Fine Arts. exhibiting frontality. parallel to the surface in the pictorial arts or seen from the front view in sculpture:

Origin of frontal

1275-1325; Late Latin frontālis (New Latin, in anatomy sense); replacing Middle English frountel Old French frontel. See front, -al1

Examples for frontal

One photo is a frontal shot with her friend Blac Chyna with the caption “Getting right for the new year.”

frontal: referring to the front of head or anterior aspect of any part.

Anticus: frontal; belonging to or directed toward the front.

McDowell was making a frontal attack and sending in his brigades piecemeal.

One of the first areas to shut down are the frontal lobes where our judgment centers are located.

Superposed: placed one above the other, as the frontal tufts in some moths.

Its distinctiveness arises from a key region, the frontal cortex, not being fully developed.

He specialized in frontal assaults on the enemy, and he quickly acquired a reputation for brutal and extreme violence.

For their submarines are useless in frontal attack against our shores!

The doctors discovered the entry wound into the frontal lobe with a diameter about equal to that of a cigarette.

Word Value for frontal
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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