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left handed
Overview of adj left-handed
The adj left-handed has 6 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. left-handed -- (using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors")
2. left-handed -- ((of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent")
3. morganatic, left-handed -- ((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)
4. levorotary, levorotatory, left-handed -- (rotating to the left)
5. left-handed -- (ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment")
6. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed -- (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)
Grep of noun left-handed
left-handed pitcher
left-handedess
left-handedness
Antonyms of adj left-handed
6 senses of left-handed
Sense 1
left-handed (vs. ambidextrous)(vs. right-handed)
ambidextrous (vs. right-handed)(vs. left-handed), two-handed
=> equipoised
right-handed (vs. left-handed)(vs. ambidextrous)
=> dextral
=> right(prenominal), right-hand(prenominal)
Sense 2
left-handed
INDIRECT (VIA illegitimate) -> legitimate
Sense 3
morganatic, left-handed
INDIRECT (VIA legitimate) -> illegitimate
Sense 4
levorotary, levorotatory, left-handed
INDIRECT (VIA counterclockwise) -> clockwise
Sense 5
left-handed
INDIRECT (VIA ambiguous) -> unambiguous
Sense 6
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
INDIRECT (VIA maladroit) -> adroit
Similarity of adj left-handed
6 senses of left-handed
Sense 1
left-handed (vs. ambidextrous)(vs. right-handed)
=> left(prenominal), left-hand(prenominal)
=> sinistral
Also See> sinistral#1; left#1
Sense 2
left-handed
=> illegitimate (vs. legitimate)
Sense 3
morganatic, left-handed
=> legitimate (vs. illegitimate)
Sense 4
levorotary, levorotatory, left-handed
=> counterclockwise (vs. clockwise), anticlockwise, contraclockwise
Sense 5
left-handed
=> ambiguous (vs. unambiguous)
Sense 6
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
=> maladroit (vs. adroit)
Pertainyms of adj left-handed
Attributes of adj left-handed
Domain of adj left-handed
Domain Terms of adj left-handed
Familiarity of adj left-handed
left-handed used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =6)
Grep of adj left-handed
left-handed
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