OUT-FRONT Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

out-front

adjective

ˌau̇t-ˈfrənt

Definition of out-front next

as in outspoken

free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions he's always been out-front about his sexuality

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Recent Examples of out-front This was a much more fun, charismatic, out-front character. —

Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 There is no rational or just universe in which a person of power — a person who is the out-front face of a public institution that receives hundreds of million dollars in funding from Louisiana taxpayers — gets to act like that at their job. —

Will Leitch, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025 Some leaders prefer to be out-front while others like staying behind the scenes. —

Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-front

Adjective

Arratia in particular worships at the altar of De la Iglesia whose highly political, outspoken but structured political melodramas, made from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, underscored how Spain’s establishment exploited it young proles, pushed into crime for a lack of real economic alternatives.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026
Always entertaining and joking with those around him, the outspoken American has taken on a showman personality at the Games.

— Tales Azzoni, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026