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The word "left" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective, adverb, verb, proper noun and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

center right right right right rightward

Derived Terms

Copenhagen left LeftTube Leftbook Leftpondia Lexit Michigan left New Left Pittsburgh left aleft allemande left alt-left alternative left antileft audience left be left at the post centre-left dirtbag left dirtbag left escalefter far left far-left flush left flush left and right give one's left nut go left hang a left hard left hard-left house left left anarchism left anarchist left and right left arm orthodox left arm unorthodox left atrium left back left bank left bower left bracket left brain left coast left communism left communist left coset left eigenvalue left eigenvector left exact left face left field left fielder left hand left hook left hooker left ideal left identity left inverse left join left lane camper left lane hog left lane hogger left lane hugger left lateral left main left nullspace left outer join left periphery left recursion left shift left total left turn left turn left ventricle left ventricular ejection time left wing left-about left-behind left-brainer left-click left-drag left-edge deletion left-footed left-footer left-half left-hand left-handed left-justified left-leaning left-libertarian left-libertarianism left-of-centre left-off left-over left-recursive left-to-right left-wing leftard lefteous leftern leftfield lefthanded leftie leftish leftism leftist leftmost leftneck leftness leftoid leftosphere leftugee lefturd leftward leftwards leftwise lefty loony left over the left over the left shoulder please turn left post-left proper left regressive left regressive leftism right and left right-to-left stage left swipe left the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing to the left top left two left feet two left hands uberleft ultraleft your other left

Distinct From

right

Etymologically Related To

leave lib lob lop

Inflected/Variant Forms

leave

Context

boxing ireland politics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

faction hand manus mitt parcel parcel of land paw piece of ground piece of land place position sect tract turn turning

Type Of (IsA)

faction hand political party position turn

Related Terms

direction ensemble hand leave left handed left wing liberal north party political punch right side socialist two left feet west

Similar Terms

far left far left larboard larboard left hand left of center left-hand left-handed left-of-center left-wing leftish leftish leftist leftmost leftmost liberal liberal near nigh nigh port socialist socialistic unexhausted

Synonym Network

left field left hand leftward unexpended

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.