Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to foreground
Participle: foregrounded
Gerund: foregrounding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | foreground |
| you | foreground |
| he;she;it | foregrounds |
| we | foreground |
| you | foreground |
| they | foreground |
Perfect
| I | have foregrounded |
| you | have foregrounded |
| he;she;it | has foregrounded |
| we | have foregrounded |
| you | have foregrounded |
| they | have foregrounded |
Past
| I | foregrounded |
| you | foregrounded |
| he;she;it | foregrounded |
| we | foregrounded |
| you | foregrounded |
| they | foregrounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had foregrounded |
| you | had foregrounded |
| he;she;it | had foregrounded |
| we | had foregrounded |
| you | had foregrounded |
| they | had foregrounded |
Future
| I | will foreground |
| you | will foreground |
| he;she;it | will foreground |
| we | will foreground |
| you | will foreground |
| they | will foreground |
Future Perfect
| I | will have foregrounded |
| you | will have foregrounded |
| he;she;it | will have foregrounded |
| we | will have foregrounded |
| you | will have foregrounded |
| they | will have foregrounded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | foreground |
| you | foreground |
| he;she;it | foreground |
| we | foreground |
| you | foreground |
| they | foreground |
Perfect
| I | have foregrounded |
| you | have foregrounded |
| he;she;it | have foregrounded |
| we | have foregrounded |
| you | have foregrounded |
| they | have foregrounded |
Imperfect
| I | foregrounded |
| you | foregrounded |
| he;she;it | foregrounded |
| we | foregrounded |
| you | foregrounded |
| they | foregrounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had foregrounded |
| you | had foregrounded |
| he;she;it | had foregrounded |
| we | had foregrounded |
| you | had foregrounded |
| they | had foregrounded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would foreground |
| you | would foreground |
| he;she;it | would foreground |
| we | would foreground |
| you | would foreground |
| they | would foreground |
Perfect
| I | would have foregrounded |
| you | would have foregrounded |
| he;she;it | would have foregrounded |
| we | would have foregrounded |
| you | would have foregrounded |
| they | would have foregrounded |
Imperative
| you | foreground |
| we | Let's foreground |
| you | foreground |
Verbs conjugated like 'foreground'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'foreground'
foresound,
reground,
forecount,
forefront,
forerun,
forwound,
background,
enround,
forebring,
forefend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).
Sample Sentences
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Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death. [2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020:]
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Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality. [2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times:]