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dextrally

dextrally adverb: towards the right.

Adverb

dextrally (comparative more dextrally, superlative most dextrally)

  1. Towards the right.
    • The hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
    • rotate it on its axis inward, i.e., sinistrally for the right eye and dextrally for the left1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision

Forms of dextrally

comparativemore dextrally
superlativemost dextrally

Origin of dextrally

From dextral + -ly.

Questions about dextrally

What does dextrally mean?
Dextrally means towards the right.
What part of speech is dextrally?
Dextrally is an adverb.

Words near dextrally in the dictionary

  1. dextrad
  2. dextral
  3. dextral fault
  4. dextral faults
  5. dextrality
  6. dextrally
  7. dextrals
  8. dextramer
  9. dextramers
  10. dextran
  11. dextranase

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