left-handed

Adjective
  1. Using or intended for the left hand (synset 302036545)
    "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
    also:
    • sinistral - of or on the left
    • left - being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north
    similar to:
  2. (of marriages) illicit or informal (synset 301411212)
    "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
    similar to: illegitimate - of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
  3. (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 (synset 301409933)
    similar to: legitimate - of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
    same as: morganatic
  4. Rotating to the left (synset 300444272)
    similar to: anticlockwise, contraclockwise, counterclockwise - in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock
    same as: levorotary, levorotatory
  5. Ironically ambiguous (synset 300103995)
    "a left-handed compliment"
    similar to: ambiguous - having more than one possible meaning
  6. Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands (synset 300063822)
    "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"
    similar to: maladroit - not adroit
    same as: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed

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