Word.ws English Dictionary

countersun

countersun adjective: anticlockwise.

Adjective

countersun (not comparable)

  1. anticlockwise
    • All movement was countersun, even if this meant crawling over someone.1969, Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science, page 54

Adverb

countersun (not comparable)

  1. anticlockwise
    • After taking places around the central pit, shoes, glasses, towels, whatever was brought in […] was passed out countersun.1969, Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Origin of countersun

From counter- + sun.

Questions about countersun

What does countersun mean?
Countersun means anticlockwise.
What part of speech is countersun?
Countersun can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near countersun in the dictionary

  1. countersuggestion
  2. countersuggestions
  3. countersuing
  4. countersuit
  5. countersuits
  6. countersun
  7. countersung
  8. countersunk
  9. countersunk hole
  10. countersunk holes
  11. countersunwise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: countersun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “countersun.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/countersun. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.