right-handed
having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
adapted to or performed by the right hand: a right-handed lever; right-handed penmanship.
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.
Building Trades. right-hand (def. 5).
in a right-handed manner or fashion: The door opens right-handed.
with the right hand: She writes right-handed.
toward the right hand or in a clockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid right-handed.
Origin of right-handed
1Other 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 AllenThe very beginning of our modern right-handedness goes back, indeed, to the most primitive savagery.
Falling in Love | Grant AllenThis instinct is undoubtedly the outgrowth of the almost universal right-handedness of the human race.
The Number Concept | Levi Leonard ConantRight-handedness is an inherited character in the same sense as the potential power of speech.
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song | F. W. MottDr. 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
using the right hand with greater skill or ease than the left
performed with the right hand: right-handed writing
made for use by the right hand
worn on the right hand
turning from left to right; clockwise
Derived forms of right-handed
- right-handedly, adverb
- right-handedness, noun
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