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English adjective: left-handed | |||
| 1. | left-handed using or intended for the left hand | ||
| Samples | Left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs. Left-handed scissors. | ||
| Similar | left, left-hand, sinistral | ||
| See also | left, sinistral | ||
| Antonyms | ambidextrous, right-handed, two-handed | ||
| 2. | left-handed (of marriages) illicit or informal | ||
| Samples | In Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent. | ||
| Similar | illegitimate | ||
| Antonyms | legitimate | ||
| 3. | left-handed (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | ||
| Synonyms | morganatic | ||
| Similar | legitimate | ||
| Antonyms | illegitimate | ||
| 4. | left-handed rotating to the left | ||
| Synonyms | levorotary, levorotatory | ||
| Similar | anticlockwise, contraclockwise, counterclockwise | ||
| Antonyms | clockwise | ||
| 5. | left-handed ironically ambiguous | ||
| Samples | A left-handed compliment. | ||
| Similar | ambiguous | ||
| Antonyms | unambiguous | ||
| 6. | left-handed lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | ||
| Samples | A bumbling mechanic. A bungling performance. Ham-handed governmental interference. Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature. | ||
| Synonyms | bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed | ||
| Similar | maladroit | ||
| Antonyms | adroit | ||
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