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counterclockwise
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective counterclockwise has 1 sense
- counterclockwise(a = adj.all) anticlockwise, contraclockwise - in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock; Array Antonym: clockwise
Adverbial counterclockwise has 1 sense
- counterclockwise(r = adv.all) anticlockwise - in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move; "please move counterclockwise in a circle!" Antonym: clockwise
CIDE DICTIONARY
counterclockwise, adj. & adv.
in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- of rotatory motion or spiral direction. Opposite of clockwise , or right-handed
"[Narrower terms: sinistral levororotary, levorotatory ]"
[PJC]
THESAURUS
counterclockwise
a rebours, a reculons, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, around, ass-backwards, astern, away, back, backward, backwards, clockwise, earthward, fro, head over heels, heavenward, heels over head, hindward, hindwards, homeward, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in circles, in reverse, landward, larboard, leeward, left, left-hand, left-wing, left-wingish, leftward, levorotatory, liberal, near, nigh, port, radical, rearward, rearwards, retrad, rightward, round, round about, round and round, seaward, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, widdershins, windward
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