Word Direct Answers

What does "forward" mean?

Forward: Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Gal. ii.
  2. 3.Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. Shak.
  3. 4.Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness. T. Arnold.
  4. 5.Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. early. The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow. Shak.
  5. 6.To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
  6. 7.To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

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