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leftmost

leftmost

1 3.5
Furthest to the left in a row or group
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɛftmoʊst/
translation icon : más a la izquierda
  • The artist painted a beautiful landscape with the leftmost tree prominently featured.
  • leftmost figure
  • leftmost bit

Rather than worrying about the whole character, let me just look at the leftmost stream of bits in all these characters.

Examples

  • Snapdragon (leftmost flower at right) is another commonly studied plant.

    Academic text (2006)
  • "When everybody had scrambled and milled about and finally sat down, Janet had the leftmost seat in the second row, by the window—

    Fiction book (1991)
  • So you said the first thing is the leftmost point, right?

  • Listed in the leftmost column of Figure 1, the major activities correspond to actions taken within the various steps of the model.

    Academic text (2012)
  • We know that that's the leftmost value for X.

  • The first bit of every line is located at the leftmost bit of a byte.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The leftmost figure is clearly the one with the deepest, presumably permanent roots in the rural environment.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Move the mouse down to the leftmost icon at the bottom of the channels palette.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Once the children were seated in the circle area, observers started with the leftmost chair and rotated their observations around the circle of children.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The controls for the machine are located on the leftmost panel.

Antonyms

1 3.9

A thing that is at the far right in a row or group

How Left

leftmost
1 3.5
right
954 1.0
rightmost
1 3.9

Surface Forms

leftmost positive

Morphology

leftmost = left (transparent) = left + most

Formed from 'left' + the position-forming/superlative suffix 'most', meaning 'furthest to the left' in a straightforward way.

Etymology

Leftmost is simply left + most, where left means the left side and most means 'the furthest'. So, leftmost is the thing that is 'furthest to the left'.