anteriorly

English

Alternative forms

• anteriourly (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From anterior +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: an‧te‧ri‧or‧ly

Adverb

anteriorly (comparative more anteriorly, superlative most anteriorly)

1. before (in time)
2. in front (in position)
3. towards the anterior
   • 1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30:

     Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.

   • 2011, N. Ikeya, ‎K. Ishizaki, ‎T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:

     In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .

Antonyms

• posteriorly

Derived terms

• dorsoanteriorly
• subanteriorly
• superoanteriorly
• ventroanteriorly

 

Translations

towards the anterior

• Portuguese: anteriormente (pt)