Antonyms for foreground

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fawr-ground, fohr-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔrˌgraʊnd, ˈfoʊr-

Definition of foreground

Origin : 1690s, in the landscape sense, from fore- + ground (n.). First used in English by Dryden ("Art of Painting"); cf. Dutch voorgrond.

As in forefront : noun prominence
As in forefront/foreground : noun prominence
As in front : noun forward, beginning part of something

Example sentences :

But this was not so startling as what it showed in the foreground.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

And the foreground—if the Little Doctor could get that, now, she would be doing something!
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

For a long time Linda sat with poised pencil, studying her foreground.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

He can give the effect of light and shade, brightness, foreground and background.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

But the exquisite drawing of the foreground is especially worthy of notice.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

With this inimitable drawing we may compare the rocks in the foreground of the Llanthony.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

The kitchen, too, obtruded and occupied the foreground of life.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

As for us, Nalty, we must not be foreground figures in the picture.
Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

So he marched back into the churchyard also, and left John in the foreground.
Extract from : « Bulldog And Butterfly » by David Christie Murray

It showed an old sailing ship in the foreground on a placid sea.
Extract from : « The Street That Wasn't There » by Clifford Donald Simak

Synonyms for foreground

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