Meaning of LEFT-HANDED
| Pronunciation: | | 'left'handid
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- [adj] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
- [adj] ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
- [adj] rotating to the left
- [adj] (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
- [adj] (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
- [adj] using or intended for the lefts hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
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| | Synonyms: | | ambiguous, anticlockwise, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, contraclockwise, counterclockwise, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, illegitimate, left(a), left-hand(a), legitimate, levorotary, levorotatory, maladroit, morganatic, sinistral |
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| | Antonyms: | | ambidextrous, right-handed, two-handed | | |
| | See Also: | | left | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Left"-hand`ed\, a.
1. Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous
than the right; using the left hand and arm with more
dexterity than the right.
2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious;
as, a left-handed compliment.
The commendations of this people are not always
left-handed and detractive. --Landor.
3. Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a
watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary
motion, etc., looked at from a given direction.
{Left-handed marriage}, a morganatic marriage. See
{Morganatic}.
{Left-handed screw}, a screw constructed to advance away from
the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed
rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.
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| | Definition: | | (Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; and also one who uses the left as well as the right, ambidexter. Such a condition of the hands is due to physical causes. This quality was common apparently in the tribe of Benjamin. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, all thumbs, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, calumnious, careless, circuitous, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contumelious, cumbersome, deflectional, degrading, deviant, deviative, devious, digressive, divagational, divergent, excursive, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, humiliating, indirect, inelegant, insolent, insulting, left-hand, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, oblique, offensive, outrageous, ponderous, scurrile, scurrilous, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinistromanual, sloppy, southpaw, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unspeakable, unwieldy |
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