left-handed

left-handed
left-handed [left′han′did]
adj.
1. using the left hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the right
2. done with the left hand
3. clumsy; awkward
4. designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment; BACKHANDED (sense 2)
5. MORGANATIC: from the custom of having the groom give his left hand to the bride at such a wedding
6. made for use with the left hand or by left-handed people
7. turning from right to left; worked by counterclockwise motion
8. designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. rightward
9. having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the left side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of one that is right-handed
adv.
1. with the left hand [to write left-handed]
2. in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings rightward
left-handedly
adv.
left-handedness
n.
left-hander
n.

English World dictionary. . 2014.

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