adverb / adjective · neutral
leftward
UK/ˈleft.wəd/US/ˈleft.wərd/LEFT·ward
Band 6-7task1speaking
toward the left side; in a leftward direction
Examples
“On the map, the river bends leftward before entering the valley.”
“Traffic flowed leftward along the narrow street.”
“Use 'to the left' in casual speech; 'leftward' is common in formal map descriptions.”
Band 8 sentence
“On closer inspection the coastline trends leftward for almost three miles before turning sharply south.”
Collocations
- move leftward
- bend leftward
- leftward shift
Word family
leftward adv / adjleftwards adv (variant)
Common mistakes
It moved to leftward.→It moved leftward.
The road bends to the leftwards.→The road bends leftwards.
Say it for a higher band
5to the left→6leftwards→7+leftward
Synonyms
to the left
Easily confused
to the left
“Move the marker to the left until the lines align.”
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In -ward
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