Definition of left-handed Left-handed
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We found 14 definitions of left-handed from 4 different sources.
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What does left-handed mean?
WordNet
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| left-handed - using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" | ||
| ambidextrous, two-handed marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray | ||
| right-handed using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" | ||
| sinistral of or on the left; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost" | ||
| left intended for the left hand; "I rarely lose a left-hand glove" | ||
| left-hand, left located on or directed toward the left; "a car with left-hand drive" | ||
| left-handed - ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment" | ||
| left-handed - (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" | ||
| left-handed - lacking physical movement skills, 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 | ||
| bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed | ||
| 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 | ||
| morganatic | ||
| left-handed - rotating to the left | ||
| levorotary, levorotatory | ||
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Wiktionary 
- left-handed (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to one who uses his or her left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, his or her right. - left-handed (Adjective)
Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. - left-handed (Adjective)
Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. - left-handed (Adjective)
Awkward or maladroit.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- left-handed (a.)
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. - left-handed (a.)
Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. - left-handed (a.)
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.
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left-handed
Using the left hand more skillfully than the right hand.
