anterior
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a tooth situated at the front of the mouth
his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- anterior derivation
Sense 2 adjective
of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
Related & opposite
- fronta also see
- posterior antonym
- spatial relation attribute
- anteriority derivation
- front tooth derivation
- frontal similar to
- frontal similar to
- prefrontal similar to
Sense 3 adjective
earlier in time
Related & opposite
- antecedence derivation
- antecedent similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | anterior |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | tooth |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bucktooth |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | fronta |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | posterior |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | spatial relation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | anteriority |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | front tooth |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | frontal |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | frontal |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | prefrontal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | antecedence |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | antecedent |