Usually means: Unexpected, unconventional, from the margins.
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  1. leftfield: Vocabulary.com
  2. Leftfield, leftfield: Wordnik
  3. leftfield: Wiktionary
  4. leftfield: Dictionary.com
  5. Leftfield (disambiguation), Leftfield: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. leftfield: FreeDictionary.org
  7. leftfield: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. leftfield: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Leftfield: Encyclopedia

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  1. leftfield: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. leftfield: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. leftfield: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.

Similar:
left, fremd, frem, faroff, fringy, phunky, far-field, Fortean, FRIM, farfetched, more...

Opposite:
rightfield, centerfield, mainstream

Types:
out-of-the-box, unconventional, non-mainstream, original, innovative, pioneering, avant-, more...

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Similar:
left, fremd, frem, faroff, fringy, phunky, far-field, Fortean, FRIM, farfetched, more...

Opposite:
rightfield, centerfield, mainstream

Types:
out-of-the-box, unconventional, non-mainstream, original, innovative, pioneering, avant-, more...



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