'Left-handed' definitions:
Definition of 'left-handed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" [ant: ambidextrous, right-handed, two-handed]
adjective
(of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
adjective
(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 [syn: morganatic, left-handed]
adjective
Rotating to the left [syn: levorotary, levorotatory, left-handed]
adjective
Ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
adjective
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]
Definition of 'Left-handed'
From: GCIDE
- Left-handed \Left"-hand`ed\, a.
- 1. Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. [1913 Webster]
- The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction. [1913 Webster]
- Left-handed marriage, a morganatic marriage. See Morganatic.
- Left-handed screw, a screw constructed to advance away from the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed. [1913 Webster] Left-handedness