left-handed
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dɪd adjective
1.
having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
2.
adapted to or performed by the left hand: a left-handed tool; a left-handed tennis serve.
3.
situated on the side of the left hand.
4.
Machinery.
a.
rotating counterclockwise.
b.
noting a helical or spiral member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists counterclockwise as it recedes from an observer.
5.
6.
ambiguous or doubtful and often unfavorable or derogatory by implication: a left-handed compliment.
7.
clumsy or awkward.
8.
of, pertaining to, or issuing from a morganatic marriage: so called from the custom, in morganatic marriage ceremonies, of having the bridegroom give his left hand to the bride.
adverb
9.
with the left hand: He writes left-handed.
10.
toward the left hand; in a counterclockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid left-handed.
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World English Dictionary
| left-handed | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | using the left hand with greater ease than the right |
| 2. | performed with the left hand |
| 3. | designed or adapted for use by the left hand |
| 4. | worn on the left hand |
| 5. | awkward or clumsy |
| 6. | ironically ambiguous: a left-handed compliment |
| 7. | turning from right to left; anticlockwise |
| 8. | law another term for morganatic |
| —adv | |
| 9. | with the left hand |
| left-'handedly | |
| —adv | |
| left-'handedness | |
| —n | |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
left-handed adj.
Using the left hand more skillfully or easily than the right.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Left-handed definition
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; and also one who uses the left as well as the right, ambidexter. Such a condition of the hands is due to physical causes. This quality was common apparently in the tribe of Benjamin.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
He'll provide left-handed organizational depth but is unlikely to make it up to the big club.
Torsion has different outputs given left-handed versus right-handed inputs.
It is no more distinctive than being tall, fat or left-handed.
Of course, good left-handed relief pitching also helped.
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