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Leftward

To or from the left.

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adjective
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    To or from the left.

adverb
  1. 1

    To or from the left.

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leftDesignating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
anticlockwise(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, of movement) In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the hands of an analog clock.
left-wing(politics) Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
izquierdanoun
rightwardTo or from the right.
leftwise(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
sidenounA bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
insidenounThe interior or inner part.
sinistrodextralMoving or directed from the left to the right.
sinistralnoun(medicine) A left-handed individual.
outsidenounThe space beyond some limit or boundary.
leftmostfarthest to the left
sinistrolateral(anatomy) On the left side of, toward the animal or human's left.
headwardnounToward the head.
sidewardToward a side.
frontwardnounFrontwards.
centerwardToward the center.
dextrosinistralMoving or directed from the right to the left.
tailwardToward the tail.
eastboundnounMoving or heading towards the east.

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