frontish adjective3 •Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth.This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3). — 2006 •(informal, rare) Somewhat to the front.We were sitting, more or less peaceably, in the frontish rows of the darkened theater when the cops broke in, pouring in from all exits. — 1962 •Assertive, pushy.Gloria snorted. "Sangita is one frontish woman." — 2015 formsmore frontish · most frontish