LAE

Adjective (1)

left (comparative further left or farther left or more left or lefter, superlative furthest left or farthest left or most left or leftmost or leftest)

1. Designating 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: ←
   • Near-synonym: port

   Synonyms:

   sinister, sinistral, port

   Antonyms:

   right, dexter, dextral

2. Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
   • The road up ahead contains a left bend.
3. Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
   • The Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine.
4. Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
   • It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn

   Antonyms:

   right

5. Relating to the beginning or earlier part of a phrase.
   • left dislocation

Adjective (2)

left (not comparable)

1. leftover, remaining

See all 15 meanings of left