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A form of left — 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: ←

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Meanings

adjective
  1. superlativesuperlative form of left: most left; furthest to the left.

    A writer may, in only one work, take a strong position on socialized medicine, and he is immediately stacked on the shelf with the leftest writers.

    1966, Discourse; a review of the liberal arts, volume 9, page 219
verb
  1. archaicindicativepastsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple past indicative of leave

    , "Prayers for Several Occasions" For when man sinned, and listened to the whispers of a tempting spirit, and refused to hear the voice of God, thou didst throw him out from paradise, and sentest him to till the earth; but yet leftest not his condition without remedy […]

Origin

left + -est

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APA

leftest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leftest

MLA

“leftest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leftest. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leftest,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leftest.

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