What is another word for right and left?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈa͡ɪt and lˈɛft] (IPA)

Right and left are common directional words used to describe the sides of an object, location or motion. However, there are plenty of alternative words that can be used to convey similar meanings. Some synonyms for right include correct, precise, accurate and valid, while other words for left include port, larboard, sinistral and sinister. Additionally, some phrases such as "on the right track" or "left behind" can provide a unique twist to the use of those words. Utilizing synonyms can help bring variety and depth to your writing, as well as provide a better understanding of the terms being used.

What are the hypernyms for Right and left?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Right and left

  • Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
    Johann G. Hamann
  • Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
    Alexander Herzen
  • Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
    Arianna Huffington
  • If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
    C. Everett Koop

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