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leftest

leftest is the superlative form of left.

leftest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of leave.

Meaning of left

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

Meaning of leave

Verb

leave (third-person singular simple present leaves, present participle leaving, simple past and past participle left)

  1. (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
    • I left my car at home and took a bus to work.
  2. (copulative, intransitive, transitive) To cause, to result in.
    • The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.
  3. (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
    • Leave your hat in the hall.
  4. (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
    • I left him to his reflections.
  5. (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
    • His bow and arrow never leaves him.
  6. (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
    • If we were to leave, the economic impact on a number of European countries would be severe.2018, The Independent, "Brexit: Theresa May 'not bluffing' in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says"

See all 22 meanings of leave

Origin of leftest

left + -est

Questions about leftest

What is leftest the superlative form of?
Leftest is the superlative form of left.

Words near leftest in the dictionary

  1. leftenants
  2. lefteous
  3. lefter
  4. leftern
  5. lefters
  6. leftest
  7. leftfield
  8. leftfielder
  9. leftfielders
  10. lefthand
  11. lefthanded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leftest (page history and authors); left (page history and authors); leave (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.

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