left-handed English

Meaning left-handed meaning

What does left-handed mean?

left-handed

— adjective using or intended for the left hand left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs left-handed scissors

— adjective (of marriages) illicit or informal in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent

— adjective ironically ambiguous a left-handed compliment

— adjective (= morganatic) (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

— adjective (= levorotary) rotating to the left

— adjective (= bumbling, bungling, ham-handed, handless) 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

Synonyms left-handed synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as left-handed?

left-handed English » English

morganatic

levorotatory

levorotary

left

counterclockwise

southpaw

sinistral

insincere

heavy-handed

handless

ham-handed

ham-fisted

clumsy

butterfingered

bungling

bumbling

be left-handed

awkward

ambiguous

unofficial

to the left

sinistrorse

sinistrogyric

morganatical

levogyric

levogyrate

lefty

lefthander

lefthanded

left-hander

left-handed person

left-hand

left hander

laevorotary

inverted hour

inverse hour

inhour

informal

hypocritical

dubious

doubtful

counter-clockwise

backhanded

anticlockwise