leftwise adjective 1adverb 1 adjective1 •(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 adverb1 •(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
