frontest

English

Adjective

frontest

  1. (phonetics) superlative form of front: most front
    • Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 56:
      He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx.
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