anticlockwise

Meanings

Adjective

• in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

Adverb

• In an anticlockwise fashion.

Related

Similar words

• counterclockwise / counter-clockwise , laevorotatory / levorotatory , positive
• counterclockwise / counter-clockwise , widdershins / withershins
• in a counterclockwise direction , in an anticlockwise direction

Opposite words

• clockwise

Origin

• anti- + clockwise