OUT-FRONT Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

out-front

adjective

ˌau̇t-ˈfrənt

Definition of out-front

as in outspoken

free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions he's always been out-front about his sexuality

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Recent Examples of out-front The media blackout, combined with Son’s less-than-out-front performances thus far, has made for a somewhat quiet World Cup, Korea-wise. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026 This was a much more fun, charismatic, out-front character. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 There is no rational or just universe in which a person of power — a person who is the out-front face of a public institution that receives hundreds of million dollars in funding from Louisiana taxpayers — gets to act like that at their job. — Will Leitch, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025 Some leaders prefer to be out-front while others like staying behind the scenes. — Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025

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Controversy was never very far from Barr, who has been open about her own mental health issues and defiantly outspoken about her politics, which have grown increasingly right-wing and conspiratorial.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
The longtime community and labor organizer has been an outspoken progressive voice in the state legislature since she was elected in 2020.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of outspoken

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My honest read on timing is that the five percent will be twenty percent by end of 2027, and fifty by end of 2029.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
The original impetus for the film, to be honest, was to look at an incredible life story over a long German period.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026

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