ALL meanings of left-handed
left-hand·ed
L l - adjective left-handed having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher. 1
- adjective left-handed adapted to or performed by the left hand: a left-handed tool; a left-handed tennis serve. 1
- adjective left-handed having the left hand dominant 1
- adjective left-handed situated on the side of the left hand. 1
- adjective left-handed Machinery. rotating counterclockwise. noting a helical or spiral member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists counterclockwise as it recedes from an observer. 1
- adjective left-handed Building Trades. left-hand (def 3). 1
- adjective left-handed ambiguous or doubtful and often unfavorable or derogatory by implication: a left-handed compliment. 1
- adjective left-handed clumsy or awkward. 1
- adjective left-handed of, relating to, or issuing from a morganatic marriage: so called from the custom, in morganatic marriage ceremonies, of having the bridegroom give his left hand to the bride. 1
- adverb left-handed with the left hand: He writes left-handed. 1
- adverb left-handed toward the left hand; in a counterclockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid left-handed. 1
- noun left-handed Left-handed people, taken as a whole. 0
- adjective left-handed Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. 0
- adjective left-handed Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. 0
- adjective left-handed Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. 0
- adjective left-handed Awkward or maladroit. 0
- adjective left-handed Someone who is left-handed uses their left hand rather than their right hand for activities such as writing and sports and for picking things up. 0
- adjective left-handed Left-handed is also an adverb. 0
- adjective left-handed using the left hand with greater ease than the right 0
- adjective left-handed performed with the left hand 0
- adjective left-handed designed or adapted for use by the left hand 0
- adjective left-handed worn on the left hand 0
- adjective left-handed awkward or clumsy 0
- adjective left-handed ironically ambiguous 0
- adjective left-handed turning from right to left; anticlockwise 0
- adverb left-handed with the left hand 0
- adjective left-handed using the left hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the right 0
- adjective left-handed done with the left hand 0
- adjective left-handed clumsy; awkward 0
- adjective left-handed designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment; backhanded (sense 2) 0
- adjective left-handed morganatic 0
- adjective left-handed made for use with the left hand or by left-handed people 0
- adjective left-handed turning from right to left; worked by counterclockwise motion 0
- adjective left-handed designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. rightward 0
- adjective left-handed having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the left side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of one that is right-handed 0
- adverb left-handed in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings rightward 0