Scarce spake the sire when lo, to leftward crashed / a peal of thunder, and amid the night / a sky-dropt star athwart the darkness flashed, / trailing its torchfire with a stream of light.
Source: tatoeba (6875146)
Leftward
Synonyms for "leftward" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Noun(1 words)
counterclockwise rotation
Strong matches (11)
Adjective(5 words)
Noun(1 words)
left turn
Related words (17)
leftwardlyleftwardson the leftportrightwardseawardsinistersinistradsinistrallyto the leftwiddershinswindward
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriesdirectional adverbdirectional shiftdirectional termdistribution shiftideologyorientationspatial adverbspatial relation
More specific
9 entriesleft-leaningleftistleftward deflectionleftward driftleftward movementleftward skewleftward-facingleftward-movingprogressive
Collocations
8 entriesleftward biasleftward deflectionleftward displacementleftward facingleftward movementleftward shiftleftward tiltmove leftward
Inflections
2 entriesmore leftwardmost leftward
Derivations
2 entriesSample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"When, wafted to Sicilia, dawns in sight / Pelorus' channel, keep the leftward shore, / though long the circuit, and avoid the right."
Source: tatoeba (7107789)
"Here Scylla, leftward sits Charybdis fell, / who, yawning thrice, her lowest depths laid bare, / sucks the vast billows in her throat's dark hell, / then starward spouts the refluent surge in air."
Source: tatoeba (7119607)
He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst.
Source: tatoeba (7336212)
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