| Main Entry: | forefront/foreground |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence |
Synonyms: |
beginning, center, cutting-edge, focus, fore, forepart, front, lead, leading-edge, limelight, on the line, spearhead*, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
back, background, rear, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | forefront |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence |
Synonyms: |
beginning, center, cutting edge, focus, fore, foreground, forepart, front, lead, leading edge, limelight, spearhead, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
background |
| Main Entry: | cutting edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leading position |
Synonyms: |
advance guard, advancement, avant-garde, fore, forefront, front, front line, innovation, invention, leading edge, new wave, newest technology, pioneer, point, spearhead, van, vanguard |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | front, beginning |
Synonyms: |
commencement, first place, fore, forefront, fountainhead, origin, rise, source, start, van, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | state-of-the-art |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to highest level of development at time |
Synonyms: |
advanced, all the rage, au courant, avant-garde, brand-new, contemporary, cutting edge, cutting edge*, fashionable, forefront, in, in-thing, latest, leading edge, modern, modernistic, most recent, new, newest, newfangled, red-hot, stylish, trendsetting, trendy, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute |
| Main Entry: | leading edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward edge |
Synonyms: |
cutting edge, forefront, front, front edge, point, state-of-the-art, van, vanguard |