right-handed

[ rahyt-han-did ]
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adjective
  1. having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.

  2. adapted to or performed by the right hand: a right-handed lever; right-handed penmanship.

  1. Machinery.

    • rotating clockwise.

    • noting a helical, or spiral, member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists clockwise as it recedes from an observer.

  2. Building Trades. right-hand (def. 5).

adverbAlso right-hand·ed·ly.
  1. in a right-handed manner or fashion: The door opens right-handed.

  2. with the right hand: She writes right-handed.

  1. toward the right hand or in a clockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid right-handed.

Origin of right-handed

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Other words from right-handed

  • right-hand·ed·ness, noun

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How to use right-handed in a sentence

  • His right-handedness, in short, is part cause and part effect of his universal supremacy in animated nature.

    Falling in Love | Grant Allen
  • The very beginning of our modern right-handedness goes back, indeed, to the most primitive savagery.

    Falling in Love | Grant Allen
  • This instinct is undoubtedly the outgrowth of the almost universal right-handedness of the human race.

    The Number Concept | Levi Leonard Conant
  • Right-handedness is an inherited character in the same sense as the potential power of speech.

  • Dr. Dwight, in his paper in "Scribner's" entitled "Right-handedness" still further develops the theory of brain power in plants.

    A Garden with House Attached | Sarah Warner Brooks

British Dictionary definitions for right-handed

right-handed

adjective
  1. using the right hand with greater skill or ease than the left

  2. performed with the right hand: right-handed writing

  1. made for use by the right hand

  2. worn on the right hand

  3. turning from left to right; clockwise

Derived forms of right-handed

  • right-handedly, adverb
  • right-handedness, noun

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