1. Frontal means relating to or involving the front of something, for example the front of an army, a vehicle, or the brain. Military leaders are not expecting a frontal assault by the rebels He pioneered the surgical technique called frontal lobotomy. see also full-frontal
a drapery that covers the front of an altar belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage" of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone; "the frontal lobes" meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air; "frontal rainfall
frontally
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front·al·ly
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Etymology
(adjective.) 1656. New Latin frontalis, from Latin front-, frons.