Adjective: left-handed 'left'han-did- Using or intended for the left hand
"left-handed scissors"; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs" - (of marriages) illicit or informal
"in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" - (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 - (Chemistry) rotating polarized light to the left
- levorotary [US], levorotatory [N. Amer], laevorotatory [Brit, Cdn] - Ironically ambiguous
"a left-handed compliment" - Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
"a left-handed mechanic"; - bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed
See also: ambiguous, anticlockwise [Brit], contraclockwise [non-standard], counterclockwise [N. Amer], illegitimate, left, left-hand, legitimate, maladroit, sinistral Antonym: ambidextrous, right-handed Encyclopedia: Left-handed |