left field

Questions about left field

What does left field mean?

left field means "the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for left field?

Close synonyms include leftfield, left, leftfield. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is left field a common word?

left field is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.