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leftfield

leftfield adjective: from out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.

Adjective

leftfield (not comparable)

  1. From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
    • Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions.2009 February 26, Mikey Cahill, “Rock City”, in Herald Sun
    • A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno.2020, Joe Muggs, Brian David Stevens, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN

Forms of leftfield

alternative formleft-field

Origin of leftfield

From left + field.

Questions about leftfield

What does leftfield mean?
Leftfield means from out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
What part of speech is leftfield?
Leftfield is an adjective.

Words near leftfield in the dictionary

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

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