What are the opposite words for back?
The word "back" has several antonyms that can be used in different contexts. Forward, front, and ahead are all antonyms for back when referring to direction. When discussing the opposite of support or assistance, antonyms for back are harm, hinder, and oppose. The term "undo" is an antonym for "back" when describing the reversal of an action or decision. Likewise, antonyms for "back" as a noun, meaning the backside of a person or animal, are front and face, which are the anterior regions. In conclusion, the antonyms of back will vary depending on the context in which it is used.
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- motion
- change
- support
- face
- put in reverse direction
- discountenance
- reject, oppose
- stative
- pretext
- appearance
- front
- side
- location
- back up
- disguise
- forehead
- frontage
- put-on
- semblance
- artifact
- brow
- chest
- cloak
- facade
- guise
- show
- outward aspect, characteristic
- forefront/foreground
- chest of human
- box for storage
- cover; coat
- obverse
- covering, makeup for deception
- front of something; expression, exterior
- surface; aspect
- appearance, pretense
- disguise; alleged reason
- aura, appearance
- false front; appearance given
- edge, exteriority of object
- forward
- fore
- in the front
- end
- preceding
- all
- from earlier time
- advancing, early
- lead, beginning
- earlier, above
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- motion
-
change
- veer.
-
support
- advance,
- disapprove,
- discourage,
- dissuade,
- go forward,
- halt,
- hinder,
- hurt,
- oppose,
- prevent,
- protest,
- refuse,
- thwart.
-
face
- cladding,
- cope with,
- coping with,
- eyeball,
- go against,
- ran into,
- refinish,
- run into,
- shingles,
- shingling,
- square off,
- staring,
- take the bull by the horns,
- Experiencing,
- Shingled,
- Sided,
- running into,
- deal with,
- CLADS,
- eyeballs,
- refinishing,
- eyeballing,
- refinishes,
- grapple with,
- make a stand,
- all owed,
- all owing,
- all-owed,
- all-owing,
- am confronted by,
- am turned toward,
- are confronted by,
- are turned toward,
- art confronted by,
- art turned toward,
- be confronted by,
- be turned toward,
- being confronted by,
- being turned toward,
- bits bullet,
- bits the bullet,
- bitted bullet,
- bitted the bullet,
- bitting bullet,
- bitting the bullet,
- coped with,
- copes with,
- flew face of,
- flew in face of,
- flies face of,
- fly face of,
- fly in face of,
- flying face of,
- flying in face of,
- front onto,
- fronted onto,
- fronting onto,
- fronts onto,
- go up against,
- goes against,
- goes up against,
- going against,
- going up against,
- grappled with,
- grapples with,
- is confronted by,
- is turned toward,
- made a stand,
- made stand,
- make stand,
- makes a stand,
- makes stand,
- making a stand,
- making stand,
- over laid,
- over laying,
- over lays,
- over look,
- over looked,
- over looks,
- over-laid,
- over-lay,
- over-laying,
- over-lays,
- over-look,
- over-looking,
- over-looks,
- ran in to,
- re decorate,
- re decorated,
- re finish,
- re finished,
- re finishes,
- re finishing,
- re model,
- re modeled,
- re modelled,
- re modelling,
- re models,
- re-decorate,
- re-decorated,
- re-decorates,
- re-decorating,
- re-finish,
- re-finishes,
- re-model,
- re-modeled,
- re-modeling,
- re-modelled,
- re-models,
- run in to,
- running in to,
- runs in to,
- squared off,
- squaring off,
- sur faced,
- sur facing,
- sur-faced,
- sur-facing,
- take bull by horns,
- take bull by the horns,
- take the bull by horns,
- takes the bull by horns,
- takes the bull by the horns,
- taking bull by horns,
- taking the bull by horns,
- taking the bull by the horns,
- took bull by horns,
- took bull by the horns,
- took the bull by horns,
- took the bull by the horns,
- was confronted by,
- was turned toward,
- wast turned toward,
- went against,
- went up against,
- were confronted by,
- were turned toward,
- wert confronted by,
- wert turned toward,
- with stand,
- with standing,
- with stands,
- with stood,
- with-stand,
- with-standing,
- with-stands,
- frown,
- lineament,
- seeming,
- lineaments,
- dis play,
- dis plays,
- dis-play,
- dis-plays,
- pro file,
- pro files,
- pro-file,
- pro-files,
- self respect,
- selfrespect,
- social position,
- social positions,
- sur face,
- sur faces,
- sur-face,
- sur-faces.
- put in reverse direction
-
discountenance
- frown on,
- Discommend,
- Disfavored,
- Disfavoring,
- object to,
- take exception to,
- hold no brief for,
- not go for,
- take a dim view of,
- count me out,
- counted me out,
- counting me out,
- counts me out,
- dis approve,
- dis approved,
- dis approves,
- dis approving,
- dis comfit,
- dis comfits,
- dis commend,
- dis commended,
- dis commending,
- dis commends,
- dis compose,
- dis composed,
- dis composes,
- dis composing,
- dis countenance,
- dis countenanced,
- dis countenances,
- dis countenancing,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- dis esteem,
- dis esteemed,
- dis esteeming,
- dis esteems,
- dis favor,
- dis favored,
- dis favoring,
- dis favors,
- dis-approve,
- dis-approved,
- dis-approves,
- dis-approving,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-comfits,
- dis-commend,
- dis-commended,
- dis-commending,
- dis-commends,
- dis-compose,
- dis-composed,
- dis-composes,
- dis-composing,
- dis-countenance,
- dis-countenanced,
- dis-countenances,
- dis-countenancing,
- dis-courage,
- dis-courages,
- dis-esteem,
- dis-esteemed,
- dis-esteeming,
- dis-esteems,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favored,
- dis-favoring,
- dis-favors,
- discommended,
- discommending,
- discommends,
- frowned on,
- frowning on,
- frowns on,
- held no brief for,
- holding no brief for,
- holds no brief for,
- not stand for,
- objected to,
- objecting to,
- objects to,
- take dim view of,
- takes a dim view of,
- takes dim view of,
- takes exception to,
- taking a dim view of,
- taking dim view of,
- taking exception to,
- took a dim view of,
- took dim view of,
- took exception to.
- reject, oppose
- stative
- pretext
- appearance
- front
- side
- location
- back up
-
disguise
- dissimulation,
- fig leaf,
- cover up,
- coverup,
- co loring,
- co lorings,
- co-loring,
- co-lorings,
- dis guise,
- dis guises,
- dis simulation,
- dis simulations,
- dis-guise,
- dis-guises,
- dis-simulation,
- dis-simulations,
- dissimulations,
- fig leaves,
- get ups,
- get-up,
- get-ups,
- makebelieve,
- pre tense,
- pre tenses,
- pre tensions,
- pre-tense,
- pre-tensions.
-
forehead
- brow.
- frontage
- put-on
- semblance
- artifact
- brow
- chest
- cloak
- facade
- guise
- show
- outward aspect, characteristic
-
forefront/foreground
- foreground,
- forepart,
- Fore part,
- cutting-edge,
- forefronts,
- be ginning,
- be-ginning,
- cutting-edges,
- cuttingedge,
- cuttingedges,
- fore front,
- fore fronts,
- fore ground,
- fore grounds,
- fore parts,
- fore-front,
- fore-fronts,
- fore-ground,
- fore-grounds,
- fore-part,
- fore-parts,
- foreparts,
- fores,
- leading-edge,
- leading-edges,
- leadingedge,
- leadingedges,
- on line,
- on the line,
- state of the arts,
- state-of-the-arts.
-
chest of human
- bust.
- box for storage
- cover; coat
- obverse
- covering, makeup for deception
-
front of something; expression, exterior
- face.
- surface; aspect
- appearance, pretense
- disguise; alleged reason
- aura, appearance
-
false front; appearance given
- show.
-
edge, exteriority of object
- side.
-
forward
- alee,
- Vanward,
- in to prominence,
- in to view,
- into prominence,
- into view,
- the fore,
- to fore,
- to the fore,
- facial,
- forward-looking,
- propulsive,
- ventral,
- well-developed,
- bare-faced,
- over-weening,
- bare faced,
- coming on strong,
- coming strong,
- fore most,
- fore-most,
- forer,
- forwardlooking,
- more ahead,
- more bare faced,
- more bare-faced,
- more facial,
- more forth,
- more forward looking,
- more forward-looking,
- more forwardlooking,
- more overassertive,
- more progressing,
- more propulsive,
- more ventral,
- more well developed,
- more well-developed,
- more welldeveloped,
- most ahead,
- most bare faced,
- most bare-faced,
- most facial,
- most forward looking,
- most forwardlooking,
- most overassertive,
- most progressing,
- most ventral,
- most well developed,
- most well-developed,
- most welldeveloped,
- over assertive,
- over-assertive,
- overassertive,
- pre mature,
- pre maturer,
- pre maturest,
- pre sumptuous,
- pre-maturer,
- selfassertive,
- smart alecky,
- smartalecky,
- up pity,
- up-pity,
- well developed.
- fore
-
in the front
- fore.
- end
-
preceding
- aforementioned,
- precursory,
- preexistent,
- prevenient,
- prodromal,
- supra,
- pre-existent,
- Precursive,
- forerunning,
- aforeknown,
- fore going,
- fore running,
- fore-going,
- fore-running,
- leadest,
- more above mentioned,
- more above named,
- more above-mentioned,
- more above-named,
- more abovementioned,
- more abovenamed,
- more aforeknown,
- more aforementioned,
- more forerunning,
- more heretofore,
- more pioneering,
- more precedent,
- more precursive,
- more precursory,
- more preexistent,
- more prevenient,
- more supra,
- most above named,
- most above-mentioned,
- most above-named,
- most abovenamed,
- most aforeknown,
- most aforementioned,
- most before,
- most forerunning,
- most heretofore,
- most pioneering,
- most precedent,
- most precursive,
- most precursory,
- most preexistent,
- most prodromal,
- most supra,
- pre ceding,
- pre cursive,
- pre cursory,
- pre existent,
- pre-ceding,
- pre-cursive.
- all
- from earlier time
- advancing, early
- lead, beginning
- earlier, above
-
Other relevant words
- abjure,
- abnegate,
- belie,
- clamp down,
- confound,
- confute,
- crack down,
- disprove,
- falsify,
- forswear,
- niggle,
- nitpick,
- oppose,
- quell,
- quibble,
- rebut,
- recant,
- refute,
- renege,
- renounce,
- repress,
- repudiate,
- retract,
- squash,
- squelch,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- take back,
- unsay,
- withdraw,
- disconfirm,
- slap down,
- belly up,
- draw on,
- forehead,
- forepart,
- along,
- forrad,
- forrard,
- forth,
- forwards,
- frontwards,
- head-on,
- onward,
- fore,
- ventral.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
