Foreground

Quick meaning: Foreground is a noun meaning The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.

Meaning

The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.

More Meanings

1. The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
2. To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
3. (computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.

Example Sentences

Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.

Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.

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.

Word Forms

• foregrounds
• foregrounding
• foregrounded

Synonyms for foreground

Depending on context, synonyms include highlight, spotlight.

Antonyms for foreground

Common opposites include background.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spotlight, highlight, limelight, plan, focus, plane.

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