1. Belonging to the front part
   "a frontal appendage"
    
2. Meeting front to front
   "a frontal attack";
   - head-on
    
3. Of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone
   "the frontal lobes"
    
4. (meteorology) of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air
   "frontal rainfall"

1. The face or front of a building
   "The historic building's frontal was carefully restored";
   - facade, frontage
    
2. An adornment worn on the forehead
   "The bride wore a jewelled frontal as part of her traditional attire";
   - frontlet
    
3. A drapery that covers the front of an altar
   "The embroidered frontal was changed to match the liturgical season"

Derived forms: frontals

See also: anterior, front

Type of: adornment, curtain, drape, drapery, front, mantle, pall

Encyclopedia: Frontal