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Left-handed (Adjective)

Meaning¹

Using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors".

Examples

Left-handed people often have trouble finding left-handed scissors in office supply stores.
My brother is left-handed, so I got him a left-handed baseball glove for his birthday.
Left-handed golfers need to make sure they have a left-handed golf club set.
Some people are naturally left-handed but were forced to learn right-handed in school.
She is a left-handed tennis player, and her left-handed serve is her strongest shot.

Related Words

Left-handedness (noun)

Examples

The door's left-handed hinge creaked as it swung open to the left.
In the UK, cars drive on the left side of the road and have left-handed steering wheels.
The left-handed spiral staircase wound its way up to the top floor, curving clockwise.
The propeller of the aircraft was designed to rotate left-handed, pushing air backwards to generate thrust.
The tornado's left-handed rotation was a characteristic of its forward momentum, causing massive destruction in its path.

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.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

Meaning⁴

(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.