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leftwise

leftwise adverb: by a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.

Adverb

leftwise (not comparable)

  1. (rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
    • and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English
    • Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336

Adjective

leftwise

  1. (rare) Leftward, on the left side.
    • The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151

Origin of leftwise

From left + -wise.

Questions about leftwise

What does leftwise mean?
Leftwise means by a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
What part of speech is leftwise?
Leftwise can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near leftwise in the dictionary

  1. Leftwich
  2. Leftwiches
  3. leftwing
  4. leftwinger
  5. leftwingers
  6. leftwise
  7. lefty
  8. lefty loosey, righty tighty
  9. leful
  10. lefull
  11. Lefurgey

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